Mameeskye,
I don't think anyone is boring on this site (except me!), and if anyone can be accused of writing a novel (which no-one would buy!) it must be me!
The deputy manager of the home (and earlier the staff on the hospital assessment unit) quickly sussed out my mum's previous interest in housework, and tried her best to get mum to help out, but mum just doesn't see the home as "hers", not even her own bedroom, her attitude being "Why should I do their work for them when you are paying for this place?".
As a young woman/mother she had few more interests, knitting, pop music, tv sitcoms and quizzes, but for at least 20 years these interests have gone. I noticed before her diagnosis of AD that the paper was unread, she had forgotten how to set the video (well, that applies to me too!), and even how to change channel on the TV. There is no way she would cope with a DVD, and long before my dad's death in 2004 he was saying she could not concentrate on anything for more than 5 minutes. The Activities Co-ordinator at the home had the ladies colouring in pictures (painting by numbers) one day, mum's objective being to colour it in in the fastest possible time in any colour and hand it over, never mind the mess she had made, while the lady next to her was taking time and patience.
Mum's care home is just about walking distance to a lovely park, I will definitely be taking her there as often as possible on warmer days, Easter Sunday perhaps another try at salmon sandwiches and trifle at our house, and her birthday lunch at a local pub. Anything to stave off the incredible boredom she must feel.
Love
Margaret
I don't think anyone is boring on this site (except me!), and if anyone can be accused of writing a novel (which no-one would buy!) it must be me!
The deputy manager of the home (and earlier the staff on the hospital assessment unit) quickly sussed out my mum's previous interest in housework, and tried her best to get mum to help out, but mum just doesn't see the home as "hers", not even her own bedroom, her attitude being "Why should I do their work for them when you are paying for this place?".
As a young woman/mother she had few more interests, knitting, pop music, tv sitcoms and quizzes, but for at least 20 years these interests have gone. I noticed before her diagnosis of AD that the paper was unread, she had forgotten how to set the video (well, that applies to me too!), and even how to change channel on the TV. There is no way she would cope with a DVD, and long before my dad's death in 2004 he was saying she could not concentrate on anything for more than 5 minutes. The Activities Co-ordinator at the home had the ladies colouring in pictures (painting by numbers) one day, mum's objective being to colour it in in the fastest possible time in any colour and hand it over, never mind the mess she had made, while the lady next to her was taking time and patience.
Mum's care home is just about walking distance to a lovely park, I will definitely be taking her there as often as possible on warmer days, Easter Sunday perhaps another try at salmon sandwiches and trifle at our house, and her birthday lunch at a local pub. Anything to stave off the incredible boredom she must feel.
Love
Margaret