Bathroom floor, toilet and walls on both sides. If he sits down it comes out front. Help? He has dementia, diabetes and ptsd. We finally had him doing good then he starts this. He still knows me and acts pretty normal most of the time. He always has cognitive problems. We have depends and pads but he still tries to go to bathroom. Then it starts. Yesterday he tried 5 times. I am so tired. Is there any hope?
"A principle of habilitative design is that we use color and textural contrast to draw attention to important features of the environment, and we camouflage or hide dangerous or distracting elements of the environment. To illustrate, I was called to a caregiver’s apartment because her husband, a mid-stage Alzheimer's patient, was urinating in a closet.
The problem as I saw it was that the couple had recently moved to a new apartment and he more often than not chose the wrong door when he felt he needed to use the bathroom. In fact, the bathroom and closet doors were adjacent to one another. By painting the bathroom door red, the color automatically drew the gentlemen’s attention and he reliably chose the correct door. However, once in the bathroom he was confronted by white walls and floor, a white sink, toilet, and bathtub. He often would urinate in the bathtub. I instructed the caregiver to purchase a red toilet seat. The problem was solved."
Dr. Raia's approach to solving these problems is important for all of us, and can have a positive effect on everything involving the case of a memory loss patient, including legal planning and how assets and resources are allocated.
So happy i never burdened him with telling him....i just worked on my attitude remembering why i loved him , and remembering all the wonderful years he
was there for me...Yes, they are bascially toddlers again...i miss him so...
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