How do you deal with your loved one when they are coming at you with scissors or a baseball bat, or a walking cane?

If this is a sudden change in your mom's mental status (that is, she usually isn't violent) she needs to be tested for a UTI IMMEDIATELY.

We had a poster recently whose elderly mother tried to kill her husband with a carving knife. It was a UTI.

I know someone that went through an experience with their mom chasing them around the kitchen with scissors. She told me that she was terrified. When she was able to get the scissors she immediately locked up all sharp objects. She took the knobs off of her stove too.

Soon after she placed her mom in a facility. She didn’t feel it was safe for her mom to be living in her home any longer.

With some forms of dementia violence is more common.
The first thing you need to do if this happens again is call 911
Please inform the dispatcher that the person has dementia and is being violent.
Ask for transport to the hospital.
But you need to contact the doctors office as soon as you can and let them know that she has become violent.
It may very well be that it is unsafe for you to keep her at home and care for her.
This is not a reflection on you or the care that you have given but a reflection of the type of dementia that you are dealing with.

Don’t believe that because of her condition you should accept this. Call 911 and know that this is beyond your caregiving abilities

Terrifying!

Obviously you have to lock up the kitchen knives, baseball bats, and scissors. Treat the house like you would with a toddler and put locks on the cabinets.

You call 911.

You have her taken to the hospital for inpatient psychiatric treatment.

She is a danger to others; you have the right to INSIST on transport by EMS. Do NOT let them or the police tell you that "it's up to her whether or not to go".

Can you safely video one of these incidents and send it to her doctor? This poor lady needs treatment desperately.