My 85 year old wife has dementia and memory loss. However it is false memory which troubles me more. How best does one deal the fact that although my wife no longer cooks normally she believes we have to put stuff in the oven two hours in advance? Any time after 3.30pm she will bring out examples of food so we can decide what to eat. She immediately forgets and does it again and again (even if I am out in the garden). Almost everything we eat is supermarket stuff which takes less than 45 mins to prepare. I have shown her the cooking time on every package - but it doesn't work. She shouts at me that she has always cooked and knows it takes at least 2 hours to cook any meal. (She was an excellent cook and I did not cook at all and she reminds me of that) .
It sounds ridiculous but I dread the afternoons - I often have to physically stop her from turning the oven on.
We do little in the evening but watch TV and she is always convinced we have seen any programme yesterday. If I agree with her, she wants a different programme - if I point out that we have not seen it she tells me I am wrong and get pretty annoyed.
I wonder if there is a standard way of deflecting this problem
John
It sounds ridiculous but I dread the afternoons - I often have to physically stop her from turning the oven on.
We do little in the evening but watch TV and she is always convinced we have seen any programme yesterday. If I agree with her, she wants a different programme - if I point out that we have not seen it she tells me I am wrong and get pretty annoyed.
I wonder if there is a standard way of deflecting this problem
John