Debra Westbrook never imagined she’d be accused by the police of stealing her mother’s pets. But that’s exactly what happened one evening when the sheriff showed up after her mother, who lived next door, reported the “theft.”
In that moment, Westbrook realized that dementia was rewriting her mother’s reality—one hallucination at a time. Her mom thought Westbrook had snuck in and out of her bedroom window and left with a cat under her arm.
