Noise

[patbryn]

On another thread i have been talking about using white noise to help a PWD but then i started thinking about our 'modern' age and that we are all surrounded by noise and how that may effect a PWD,
here is a lot of info all about it, lots to read, lots to learn.
https://junebergalzheimers.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15&Itemid=45

 

[Bunpoots]

Interesting. I like a bit a background noise most of the time but my dad would switch off the telly and sit in silence.

I wonder at what point the ability to filter out sounds decreases with dementia?

 

[AliceA]

Yes, I wonder too. When we had teenagers I would sometimes go in the bedroom put on soft music and read.
The volume just loud enough to blot out the house sounds.
When I have drifted to sleep with the radio on the dialogue has impinged into my dreams. So I am sure noise and actions can have an impact on those we care for, especially when they can no longer rationalise the meaning.
When in a quiet place I like simple silence.

Bunpots point about filtering is interesting when as a child I was deep in a book I just didn't hear at all even an angry parent. So it probably diminishes even more with dementia added to age.

I have read about the overload of the senses is just too much to cope with rather as with those on the artistic spectrum.

 

[Sirena]

People with dementia tend to be of an age when they have some hearing loss, so that may add to the problems of filtering/decoding noise.

But I think it varies. In the care home main lounge there is almost always background noise - either music playing or the TV. In a CH you can't organise silence, there will always be carers and residents talking, and having music on tends to 'smooth out the sounds' in the way Alice mentioned she did as a teenager. Almost all the residents seem to like/ignore the background music, there are only two I'm aware of who move to a quieter area. My mother loves it, and sings or chats along to herself.

 

[AliceA]

On another thread i have been talking about using white noise to help a PWD but then i started thinking about our 'modern' age and that we are all surrounded by noise and how that may effect a PWD,
here is a lot of info all about it, lots to read, lots to learn.
https://junebergalzheimers.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15&Itemid=45

Thank you for this link it is full of helpful writings.

 

[canary]

My OH definitely gets stimulus overload - too much noise, too bight a light, too many people, too much going on.
OH, doesnt even like music playing and sometimes I will have the television on, go to the loo and when I get back discover that he has switched it off! At least in the house silence can be organised.

 

[patbryn]

My OH definitely gets stimulus overload - too much noise, too bight a light, too many people, too much going on.
OH, doesnt even like music playing and sometimes I will have the television on, go to the loo and when I get back discover that he has switched it off! At least in the house silence can be organised.

I think in this world we can all suffer from this?
for yourself perhaps some headphones so you can still enjoy the tele or music?

 

[Canadian Joanne]

It does seem that the world is just one big noise sometimes. I don't have problems with city street noises of traffic etc but have walked by stores because the music is so loud. I prefer to work in silence (well, not counting me talking to myself, which I do quite a bit ) but when it was permitted, nearly all my co-workers wanted a radio on. One was quite flabbergasted when I said, no, I didn't want radio through my telephone. She couldn't understand I preferred silence.

When alone at home, I rarely have the TV or radio or music on. I do like silence.