Reading these posts is reassuring - as ever, I know that we are not alone.
Mum used to be awake until about 11pm, and then up at 8am. But then bed time became earlier and earlier, and she had to be prompted to get up In time for her weekly day centre trip.
After a few weeks in hospital, she is now back home. I don’t know whether it is the hospital routine, but the first few days she was up at 9.00-9.30 (we had to wake her). Wanting to go to bed at 7pm. She was wandering in the night, so until we got the motion sensor from the council, we didn’t want her to go to bed too early, as she sleeps downstairs now, and we can’t always hear her moving. We now have the sensor in place, so at least we know she is up and about. These past couple of mornings she is insisting on getting up at 8am, then complaining that she wants to go back to bed even as she eats her breakfast. Is this because bed was an option in hospital?
If she slept well at night, I wouldn’t mind the early night, but she has us up to help her to the commode all evening, once in bed, then through the night. From teatime, she is lying down on the sofa, then once she is in bed, she Is constantly calling us.
I don’t know if we should let her sleep all day? Is it ok for her to be lying down on the sofa, rather than sitting? We cannot get her interested / active with anything. She will not even phone the family and friends who have left messages, concerned about her during her hospital stay.
*”we” = her full-time carer, and myself
** mum is not on any dementia medication