If you are a bad cop, you are probably upset all the time by the behavior of your Alzheimer’s patient. If you are a good cop, you probably learned that your Alzheimer’s patient is not guilty of a crime….. By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer’s Reading Room Are you a Good Cop or a Bad Cop? This is a question all Alzheimer’s caregivers should ask themselves from time to time. I’m thinking back to the beginning when my mother would just keep eating and eating. She was always hungry. Once I took her out on Easter Sunday to brunch. It was one of those buffet style affairs. They had everything under the sun to eat. I watched in both amazement and horror as my mother “chowed down”. I couldn’t believe that my tiny mother was eating more than me. We get home and we get changed and I am thinking to myself, I am so stuffed that I don’t think I will be able to eat again that day. It was around 2:30 PM in the afternoon. I’m sitting in the living room and here comes Mom with a bowl of cereal in her hand. I can’t remember exactly what I said, but I do know this — bad cop. Taking this one step further. I was constantly reminding Mom, you just ate.

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