Sometimes I can do it by saying our puppy 🐶 or kitties 😸 are tired.

Dear lloverich, You have done such amazing things to monitor your husband & ensure his safety. Thanks for sharing. Is your husband receptive/cooperative to your caregiving? The problem I'm having is that John refuses my attempts to help him. He used to be somewhat responsive to my cues and suggestions but now he is resistive and argumentative. Yelling and threatening to walk back to CT. So I'm limited as to how much I can try to encourage him to do simple things like shower, change clothes and brush his teeth. It gets exhausting often with no positive result. So I have come to accept I need help. Finding it is my most pressing goal. I will use some of your suggestions as they are needed. Sending support.

Heading to the eighth year of our journey since official ALZ diagnosis. My husband sleeps more often but it is generally during the late afternoon. He will generally go to bed after these 7-hour naps but, I don't think he sleeps as I hear him talking to his hallucinations throughout the night, I also have a camera that also show me his constant movements. I track his behavior/hallucinations by day using words for myself as "connected and not connected" as most often he his just incessantly talking. I say he is connected when he allows me to say something. Then there are occasionally days when he does not get up out of bed in am and falls in and out of sleep til 1:00pm afternoon. During these long sleep patterns, his
Depends will become very wet and often include BM without disturbing him. I had prepared myself for his sleeping in bed with a rug alarm and the camera, to alert me when he did awake and put his feet on the floor I was alerted to assist him. Last week when he stood up he lost his balance and fell backwards to the floor. I have now installed a second bed rail and have attached that same alarm to the rail. I am alerted to his movement before he puts his feet on the floor.

Husband usually goes up to bed OK but doesn't stay there. He gets up often and if he stays in his room, that's a bonus. I have a motion sensor that sounds an alarm in my room if he leaves his room.

Where do you get the alarm rugs?