Hi all, need some advice please.
My grandad has vascular dementia lives on his own and up until recently has been doing well. He has started waking up during the night, getting up, washing shaving getting dressed and sitting with a cup of tea. He’s had a police escort home at 2.30am due to him wandering about going to the newsagents which opens at 6am. Hence we had cctv and door sensors fitted to monitor him better that send alerts to my phone.
He was up every couple of hours repeating his morning routine, so I’d ring and tell him to go back to bed. As you can imagine this is draining on myself too as I’m getting an alert, getting up myself watching the cctv to see where he is what he’s doing, ringing him, waiting for him to go back to bed, then getting myself back to sleep and then 2 hours later it’s repeating.
I’ve put notes up all over the house “go back to bed if it’s dark” I’ve put notes on the external doors “do not open until it’s light outside”
What can I do to help him sleep through the night? Are sleeping tablets the next stage?
I also care for him during the day so when it gets to 7.30am I turn the cctv alerts off keeping door sensors on, sort my own home and family out and go and spend the day with him returning home around 3pm and go back up at 7pm for night time tablet taking, he then spends the evening watching tv till 10pm and then bedtime starts, waking at midnight, 2am, 4am, 6am and then after that I leave him up.
It’s making him more tired and I think lacking sleep is making him more confused. I’m also like a bear with a sore head due to not sleeping enough. Anyone had any similar experiences?
My grandad has vascular dementia lives on his own and up until recently has been doing well. He has started waking up during the night, getting up, washing shaving getting dressed and sitting with a cup of tea. He’s had a police escort home at 2.30am due to him wandering about going to the newsagents which opens at 6am. Hence we had cctv and door sensors fitted to monitor him better that send alerts to my phone.
He was up every couple of hours repeating his morning routine, so I’d ring and tell him to go back to bed. As you can imagine this is draining on myself too as I’m getting an alert, getting up myself watching the cctv to see where he is what he’s doing, ringing him, waiting for him to go back to bed, then getting myself back to sleep and then 2 hours later it’s repeating.
I’ve put notes up all over the house “go back to bed if it’s dark” I’ve put notes on the external doors “do not open until it’s light outside”
What can I do to help him sleep through the night? Are sleeping tablets the next stage?
I also care for him during the day so when it gets to 7.30am I turn the cctv alerts off keeping door sensors on, sort my own home and family out and go and spend the day with him returning home around 3pm and go back up at 7pm for night time tablet taking, he then spends the evening watching tv till 10pm and then bedtime starts, waking at midnight, 2am, 4am, 6am and then after that I leave him up.
It’s making him more tired and I think lacking sleep is making him more confused. I’m also like a bear with a sore head due to not sleeping enough. Anyone had any similar experiences?