My OH with moderate Alzheimer’s is still fully mobile, indoors at least, and he fidgets. He continually fiddles about. Loads the dishwasher with dirty cups etc when it’s actually clean and waiting to be unloaded. Or unloading it when the stuff is dirty. And puts stuff away in random places. I put a couple of damp fabric table mats on the radiator to dry this afternoon and found them still damp on the table (damp wood table now). He will lay out plates for breakfast before we’ve even finished dinner and has the bedside lights on and glasses of water by the bed by 7pm. He moves EVERYTHING! I bought a pack of pens on Friday but they have vanished. Anything left on the kitchen worktop e.g something I’ve left there to remind me to take it out with me tomorrow - will have moved. Either just pushed to the back or put in the window ledge. If I put something in the waste basket (he empties these at least once a day) that is not obvious rubbish, like a dead biro, it will be extracted and left in the kitchen.
He’s actually sitting reading the paper as I write this but I know he will be up and furkling about again any minute and I will hear him opening and closing drawers. It does sound like a trivial thing. I can hear you saying you wish yours would at least try and “help” by doing the dishwasher or emptying the waste paper baskets! But it’s exhausting, frustrating having to find things or sort out the muddles he has left and it’s driving me mad!
He’s actually sitting reading the paper as I write this but I know he will be up and furkling about again any minute and I will hear him opening and closing drawers. It does sound like a trivial thing. I can hear you saying you wish yours would at least try and “help” by doing the dishwasher or emptying the waste paper baskets! But it’s exhausting, frustrating having to find things or sort out the muddles he has left and it’s driving me mad!