I would keep asking!! I was in a rehab/nursing home for 8 months and there was a couple of older people that was wheelchair bound, but wheeled themselves around the hall and other rooms.
I was sitting in my room when one of these ladies who had dementia came in my room and started to take something off of my dresser, I told her to put it back but she said it was hers and off she went. i had to get the aide go get it back from her.
One day 2 ladies got in a fist fight over this. One had a black eye when the dust settled.