Lynne Lyne decided to move her 93-year-old mother, Jacque, into her Camas home in 2022 after noticing her mother’s cognitive decline worsening alongside her father’s health. It was a difficult decision and one that quickly proved harder in practice.
At first, Lyne hired a caregiver to help with her mother’s daily tasks and provide companionship. But as her dementia progressed, her mother became paranoid and irrationally suspicious, she said — common symptoms of the disease.