This is my first post in the forum. Apologies if it's not the right sort of question. My Dad was diagnosed with MCI 4 or 5 years ago. He lives with my Mum in the same town where I live. One of his main symptoms seems to be difficulty processing information, as well as anxiety, repetition and memory loss (I think this is often because the information never went in in the first place, rather than that he has forgotten it). Last week they changed their TV, internet and phone provider due to really poor service from their previous provider, including being left without any service for days and error messages regularly popping up on the screen which he found confusing and asked Mum the same question about every single time (not good for her mental health!). We knew that Dad was likely to have some problems with the change and technical stuff of any sort can be confusing to any of us. But he won't look at the list of instructions we've written out for him (processing written info seems to be much easier for him) and isn't getting on very well with the new remote control, which has slightly different buttons to what he was used to, not being able to even consistently turn the TV and box on and off. It's frustrating for him and upsetting for Mum (and the rest of us).
Has anyone successfully made this sort of change with someone who has MCI? Any tips for getting them used to it? Mum has found some really simple remote controls with just a few buttons, but I wonder if that will still be a problem for him because it's something different again. It's really hard not being able to understand how his brain is going to deal with any new information.
Has anyone successfully made this sort of change with someone who has MCI? Any tips for getting them used to it? Mum has found some really simple remote controls with just a few buttons, but I wonder if that will still be a problem for him because it's something different again. It's really hard not being able to understand how his brain is going to deal with any new information.
