lol sorry i had to laugh this is ongoing game with my mother, but her favourite is hiding her underwear lol.ive even found them all neatly folded in a pencil case, a loo roll (in tube) the fridge and even stuck in letter box. we are always having to hunt things down, i now think what is the most unlikely place to put them and start there. she also tends to take everything to bed with her like shes trying to keep it all close, so making her bed is task just to clear all the things shes hid.
Funniest case I've heard of is when the staff have had to look for missing dentures Never mind someone's room - there's an chance they might be in another resident's mouth
yep...very common. I now accept that all important stuff needs to be locked away from mum, as she will squirrel it away somewhere...no logic to hiding places, or she will pick it up and, not knowing where it 'lives', will put it in the weirdest places
My advice would be to accept it as part of the condition and lock away anything that you may need to get your hands on urgently.
I long ago accepted that unless I put items in my secure place, they are apt to disappear.
Good luck with the treasure hunting.
Me too, and neither of us has dementia. My OH does not believe in putting anything away where it is supposed to go in case he might need it again in the next year or two (seriously). So both of us have to search for these things that he has left 'to hand', i.e. under the next wave of clutter.Help! I am forever looking for household objects because my husband hides them away in obscure places.
On the UOAA forum there was a report of a person pasting their ostomy pouch to the bathroom mirror.
There are RFID "locators" that have RFID tags that can be hidden inside objects, attached to eyeglasses etc and associated finder that will locate the missing object.
I am starting to get worried about her decent jewellery though, some of them are heirlooms and I worry that she will just not like them one day and chuck them out. Still I suppose there is always insurance
Jan