My Mum has moderate Alzheimers and Dad has cognitive impairment.
They say he doesn't have any form of dementia but sometimes I wonder.
Dad refuses any home maintenance where it involves money, or something he feels he can do himself.
Often something he decides to do himself, doesn't turn out quite right or he breaks something, and we have to fix it or put it right.
Mums eye for attention and mess in the house has gone by the wayside.
Dad who would do little home maintenance jobs like touching up paint, is now questionable, using the wrong kind of paint or doing a half pie job.
Their house needs cleaning on the outside with high windows, but he won't hear of paying someone to do it, he can do it.
He proceeds to get the garden hose and hoses the bottom half of the house only.
His vegetable garden is a mass of weeds and he never waters it properly, but thinks its the best thing ever. If you suggest netting to keep the cats and birds out, he refuses and ties bits of wool around his plants.