Does your PWD destroy things?

[Linbrusco]

Yes more I think about it I might try with wool & needles. Will ask care home staff their thoughts and for safety with the needles. Mums a bit more advanced than the other lady who still knits.
Shame Mum has never crotched.

 

[DMac]

I wonder if destroying shoe insoles might be linked to incontinence? My MIL has accidents from time, to time, which causes her shoes to become wet. We sometimes find insoles removed and put in the bin or destroyed. And pants as well!

 

[Peppie]

@Peppie, as far as I know, the dementia is the explanation for these sorts of behaviours. Exactly what is happening, I do not know, but presumably the cause is some part of the brain that has been damaged by the disease.

I found this article: http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_ro...cle_d0eeede0-29be-11e7-b800-b36076cdba7c.html

The "hiding" things seems to generally be that the PWD is putting the item "somewhere safe," not necessarily deliberately hiding it from themselves or others (but possibly). This seems to be a very common behaviour in a lot of PWDs. Again, I have no understanding of the pathophysiology that explains this. There's not a lot here but: https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/info/20064/symptoms/87/behaviour_changes/9

This factsheet is from the Canadian Alzheimer's Society: http://www.alzheimer.ca/sites/default/files/files/chapters-on/cornwall/info/fact sheets en/hoarding ascd may 30 2013.pdf

Thank you for the links they were very interesting I did get dad a bright sturdy box to put all his bits and pieces in he accumulated quite a bit then what yes you guessed he hid it I find it sometimes after several weeks sometimes in places that I've already looked and it goes on and on I spend my life looking for his stuff

 

[malengwa]

It was cutting things up in my mum's case. She cut faces out of old photos, her bus pass, she even cut up money into tiny pieces, and would then say I don't know who's done all this or where all these bits have come from. She didn't get on with the fiddle muff, and when dad hid all the scissors, she started with the knives. She was a dressmaker, artist and cake maker so we linked it to that.
She only stopped when she went into a care home, then she would pick at her blanket.