When dementia takes over, what should you do if your loved one owns a gun?

As the disease gets worse, pressure is placed on the family to make important decisions for the individual to keep them safe. “My dad carried a gun on him all the time. It was who he was. Taking that away was like taking away part of his identity,” Carla Rafferty said. For Carla’s family, taking away her dad’s gun was a process. She said the family didn’t want him to know what was going, so the first thing they did was take the bullets out of his gun, then they put a lock on it. Eventually, her dad forgot how important that gun was to him. If you aren’t ready to remove the guns from the house, Alzheimer’s Tennessee recommends putting them in a safe place like a gun safe or a secure location.
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