Stopped watching TV
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Mum has almost lost all interest in TV unless it is a programme with singing or dancing.
Loves Idol, The. Voice, Britains Got Talent etc
She watches Coronation Street & Eastenders but doesn't really "watch"it.
Dad tapes them because sure as fate she will say she didn't see that particular episode and has no recollection so watches them again.
Really anything with a storyline is no good.
Loves Idol, The. Voice, Britains Got Talent etc
She watches Coronation Street & Eastenders but doesn't really "watch"it.
Dad tapes them because sure as fate she will say she didn't see that particular episode and has no recollection so watches them again.
Really anything with a storyline is no good.
my first post, but have to say my mum drives us mad with constant switching channels, searching for something to watch, she doesn't seem to take anything in, so she can find,for example) bargain hunt, say I like this, then a minute later she is off again, up the channels, "looking for the news about to start" even though we keep saying there is a 24 hour news channel, then she will end up back on bargain hunt, as if she has only just found it, then..off she goes again. hard keeping up with remote control batteries, she has been like this for a few years, we put it down to stress with my dad having cancer, but she has got worse now he has gone 
My OH went from loving films, theatre and reading to staring into space - except music programmes like Andre Rieu and animal stuff. Nothing with a plot that has to be followed. He used to love mysteries and watched things like Sherlock Holmes, then went down to Midsomer Murders, then to Murder She Wrote, now even that is too much to "take in". So sad.
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Maybe she would enjoy listening rather than watching. Try her on headphones and some old musicals or songs she could hum or sing along to.
I got her an old fashioned type stereo so she could play LP's, that beyond her now, even turning on the radio is a feat. Unfortunately headphones would be too tricky believe it or not!
Every time I put a channel on she just says I've seen this before to everything, no idea why...
Also the wonderful remote for Alzheimers is too hard to work so most of the time the TV is off, what an awful way to be, no wonder she's declined so badly recently.
Yes, my mum also does the staring into space, not actually looking at the TV & says she didn't see whatever programme she wanted to watch as 'she was too busy'. I put old musical films (DVDs) on which she likes but either she falls asleep or wanders off. So I'd say it is normal.
my dad stopped watching tv a while ago he stares at the clouds and tells us all the things he sees we get a running commentary and if I put music on he seems to think its the people in the clouds that are singing!! He only reads the headline in the newspapaer again and again each time like the first I hate az
Mum went through the thing of thinking she had seen everything before. She has the tv on some of the time if the carers put it on but it is clear she can't follow it properly. I am experimenting with dvds and indeed ones with music and dancing she seems to enjoy a bit, although her attention wanders and then sometimes goes back to it.
Put a ballet dvd on as I was leaving, one prob is that on the dvds the copyright thing comes up with the word 'WARNING' in big enough letters that mum can read it and she thinks something is wrong. It has taken me several attempts of putting it on to realise that i need to stand in front of the screen so she can't see that word.
Put a ballet dvd on as I was leaving, one prob is that on the dvds the copyright thing comes up with the word 'WARNING' in big enough letters that mum can read it and she thinks something is wrong. It has taken me several attempts of putting it on to realise that i need to stand in front of the screen so she can't see that word.
My MIL who never watched TV during the day before tends to have it on a lot these days but complains that she has seen everything before. Seems to be taken with the tennis at the moment, she is not a sports fan at all & tells me she has no idea what is going but it seems to fascinate her.
I think this seeing everything before must be so common for this illness. I wish we all could find a solution. I too will be cancelling my Mother's expensive sky subscription as she just switches it on and off and has seen it all before. She still reads the paper and does the code word.
She still reads the paper and does the code word.My Mum lost interest in reading and TV both at the same time about two years ago, she wont listen to music either. Strangely about a year ago she joined in the karaoke event the home put on, we were gobsmacked as she would never have done that pre_dementia xx
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Ange, my mother did the chicken dance a few weeks ago. I could explain her doing it (her dementia) haven't worked out what my rationale is. She even remembered for a couple of days that I did it. It was a event at the nursing home. Mum would not have done it pre dementia
Bless her, it certainly makes them act completely out of character, it is a mystery to me xx
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My mum struggles with the remote now, and I'm wondering whether to get her one of those Flipper ones, or whether it's too late
She rarely watches TV. She watches the trees outside her room blowing in the wind, often saying "there's not a breath of wind, is there?", even when there is a definite breeze. Also comments on no-one using the allotments she can see....I think it's all confabulation, really
Doesn't help conversation, does it? For example, the usual "EastEnders was good, last night, wasn't it?" (me), is generally met by, " Oh, I think I saw a bit of it, I was doing something else....now what was I doing?.....maybe I was on the phone", etc (mum).
Bless her
She rarely watches TV. She watches the trees outside her room blowing in the wind, often saying "there's not a breath of wind, is there?", even when there is a definite breeze. Also comments on no-one using the allotments she can see....I think it's all confabulation, really
Doesn't help conversation, does it? For example, the usual "EastEnders was good, last night, wasn't it?" (me), is generally met by, " Oh, I think I saw a bit of it, I was doing something else....now what was I doing?.....maybe I was on the phone", etc (mum).
Bless her
I know some people have found the flipper good but we have just returned my mums! Didn't seem to be compatible with her tv and trying to set up the favourites was a nightmare!! She uses am ordinary remote with my sister and I ringing her to get her on the right channel. Nightmare so thought the flipper was the answer to our prAyers! Sadly it wasnt
Hi RR
It takes the place of two remotes - one for the TV, one for the freeview / Sky box (or whatever you have).
It just has controls for on/ off, volume, and move channel up / down.
See this:
http://www.alzproducts.co.uk/flipper-big-button-remote-control.html
Hope this helps
Lindy xx
It takes the place of two remotes - one for the TV, one for the freeview / Sky box (or whatever you have).
It just has controls for on/ off, volume, and move channel up / down.
See this:
http://www.alzproducts.co.uk/flipper-big-button-remote-control.html
Hope this helps
Lindy xx
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