My husband has mild cognitive deficit (2 yrs and going down). Threatened a solicitor at the door This was probably a scam but just the same. This happens all the time where I live. Anyway, he threatened to shoot him for trespassing after asking him three times to leave. I need help in sorting this out and suggestions on how to handle this.
Loved your comments. ... In don't have any cognitive deficit (that I know of), but a couple of weeks ago I also threatened a few Hispanic Baptists with busting a cap in their a__ if they didn't leave the building.
The problem is that all these solicitors know when you're home. Sometimes they "clock" you and approach you on the street as if you've been friends forever. Like a bad pain, they don't go away that easily. Especially when you firmly tell them you're not interested.
So they buzz you from the lobby with "Police!;" or "Could you let me in? I forgot my keys." Or you're in the middle of an O__ and the doorbell rings ... and rings.
When my 3 pitbulls were alive, solicitors -- religious and otherwise -- referred to me as the Son of Satan or that "Crazy Puerto Rican." No one dared knock on my door, including the potheads and crackheads down the hall who hit the neighbors for 50 cents in the middle of the night so they could keep that high going.
I understand your husband Pat. ... Been there, done that. Do, however, follow up on these ladies' advice. It's right on point.
-- ED
Toward the end of my father's life, he got progressively angrier and angrier. Looking back now, I realize that he probably had dementia along with a lot of other health problems.
One night he decided that he hated his cousin and was going to the bedroom in the back of the house to get a loaded gun and shoot him. When I was told this story, I just thought it sounded like something right out of a Jerry Springer episode. I couldn't even process it.
Thankfully, he was in a wheelchair and his cousin had time to get away. The next day my brother went into the house and took away every gun. I suppose if Dad had been more lucid, he would have figured out how to get another gun, but he wasn't and so he didn't. I have no idea how my brother got the guns without my dad having a stroke in his fury over the situation.
I'm personally getting a little tired of people/pesky salesmen trying to take advantage of the elderly (I'd probably offer to reload for your husband!) The dude should have left the first time he was asked to leave!
Just this week 3 customers have tried to take advantage of Mom at our shop.
2 women today could tell she has dementia and were deliberately, DELIBERATELY..., trying to confuse her, bombarding her with one question after another and not even letting her answer before zapping her with another. I almost told 'em to leave, but surprisingly Mom held her own! (this time)
Get the Police to intervene and remove the guns from your house.