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   Grandmother With Dementia Arrested   
   Posted: Oct 23, 2014 5:47 PM CDT   
   Updated: Nov 02, 2014 5:48 PM CST   
   By Ashley Knight   
      
       
      
       
      
       
      
   This is 87-year-old Stella Glatfelter. She lives in this mobile home with her   
   grandson, his girlfriend, and their two sons. The mobile home park is quiet   
   this morning, but was anything but quiet last night around 11:30. Dispatch got   
   a call from the home,    
   but the caller hung up. Deputies went to check it out.   
      
   "Ms. Glatfelter was ranting and cursing at the time deputies arrived, there   
   had been some type of dispute between her and I think a grandson," says Sgt.   
   Joe Mahoney with Mobile County Sheriff's Office.   
      
   Deputies saw Stella hit one of the children in the arm. Her grandson also told   
   deputies she had threatened to kill him while holding a .38 revolver, which he   
   then gave to deputies. It was discovered the gun was stolen.   
      
   Steven says his grandmother suffers from dementia and her health has been   
   declining for the past few years, but in the past few months, has taken a   
   sharp turn for the worse.   
      
   "She'll discuss things that happened five years ago but she can't remember   
   what happened an hour ago," says Glatfelter.   
      
   Gina Germany is an expert with Gulf Coast Dementia Services and has seen   
   erratic behavior before in those suffering from the disease.   
      
   "He was probably in his late 80's and he had regressed back to the war where   
   he was hunting Charlie. And his wife had put a big chain link fence around the   
   house because he would wander off and in fact when I was there, he thought I   
   was Charlie at one    
   point. And he was a danger to himself and a danger to the family. So when it   
   gets to that point there's really not much else you can do but put them into a   
   facility where they're safe," says Germany.   
      
   "I'm doing the best I can do with what I have right now. And I made a promise   
   to a person one time that I wouldn't allow her to go to a nursing home. I   
   don't want her to go to a nursing home, I just want her to get some help,"   
   says Glatfelter.   
      
   Glatfelter did have a medical evaluation in jail. The grandson told me   
   officers had responded there before and knew of her condition, but this was   
   the first time she had been put in jail, because of her violent behavior at   
   the time. Deputies tell me the    
   family needs to fill out a petition to put her in a mental institution where   
   she can get the care she needs.   
      
      
   http://www.wkrg.com/story/26878857/grandmother-with-dementia-arrested   
      
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