I'm running out of ideas on how to help my mum realise what time of day it is, some days she goes to bed late afternoon thinking it is bedtime, sometimes makes dinner early or misses meals altogether. Tried:
The memory clocks with "Sunday afternoon... etc" - one up and downstairs, she never looks at them/forgets to.
Setting Alexa up with reminders throughout the day - "it's lunchtime", etc. She ignores it or isn't in the room when it goes off.
Phoning her throughout the day isn't always practical when I'm at work but trying to call at lunch every day.
Part of the problem is she has next to no hobbies, or interest in taking one up, all she does each day is read a magazine or some light housework, maybe popping to the local shop. I have my suspicions that she has forgotten how to turn the TV on, I always do this when I get in from work and later in the evening she leaves the room without turning it off.
I guess it's not that big a deal compared to other problems that carers are facing. I'm just having a rant as I'm tired of coming home and finding her in bed or making meals at the wrong time.
The memory clocks with "Sunday afternoon... etc" - one up and downstairs, she never looks at them/forgets to.
Setting Alexa up with reminders throughout the day - "it's lunchtime", etc. She ignores it or isn't in the room when it goes off.
Phoning her throughout the day isn't always practical when I'm at work but trying to call at lunch every day.
Part of the problem is she has next to no hobbies, or interest in taking one up, all she does each day is read a magazine or some light housework, maybe popping to the local shop. I have my suspicions that she has forgotten how to turn the TV on, I always do this when I get in from work and later in the evening she leaves the room without turning it off.
I guess it's not that big a deal compared to other problems that carers are facing. I'm just having a rant as I'm tired of coming home and finding her in bed or making meals at the wrong time.