Brenda, my grandmother is the same way and has violent tendencies. I haven't gone to see her in a long time and even when I do she doesn't know me...In the last years she where she knew me I lived with my grandparents. It was only then that I realized just how long she had been ill. She had all kinds of things that I assumed were hoarded, but in reality she had been buying stuff and then not remembering and buying it over again. Stacks of soap, a whole shelf of shampoo, boxes and boxes of cereal. But that wasn't the worst..she became violent with my grandfather, trashed the small shed I was living in, went around ranting and looking for her "$5000" dollars she supposedly put somewhere, or blaming me for stealing it. The last straw was her cooking bacon and then walking away out the door only to be found two miles away digging through someone's trash, all the while the kitchen cabinets are starting to go up in flames...She had to go to a home. Now she is nothing but a shell and as talesin says, it just is not right.. BUT I have good memories. As my parents mismanaged their financial life my entire childhood I had occasion to live with my grandparents. She used to babysit for a living and one of the things I remember is her cooking all the time and playing cards with the kids and making coolaid...And the funny things...like only putting in her teeth to go shopping, a convention, of the Kingdom Hall...only to go right home, take out the teeth, then bust out with the chewing tobacco...Prince Albert out of the can and in to the mouth as it were..funny things one remembers make it easy not to think about the cold dead reality Alzhiemers is...