Re: What to do if he can't find the bathroom??((Rhonda)))

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Rhonda, I think your dad's problem is the same problem that Carol was having

with her MIL recently. Your dad does not recognize the toilet, because of

Visuospatial Impairment, a symptom of LBD, and you have to find a bathroom

carpet that fits around the toilet, a solid color that off sets the toilet from

the floor, so he can find the toilet. He can not see the difference between the

floor and the toilet to find it. My husband did the exact same thing as your dad

and would sit on the edge of our bed or a chair and use it for a toilet. Put a

night light in the bathroom too. I don't know if this will work, but I just

thought of it. Maybe some colored tape on the floor that leads to the bathroom

that he can follow; like the " Yellow Brick Road " Hahahaha You have to show him

how to follow the tape and it leads to the toilet and show him the carpet, so he

knows that is where the toilet is. Make some trial runs, so he learns. I am not

sure if a LO with LBD can learn to follow

something like colored tape. I do know the carpet contrast with the toilet

worked for my husband.

The carpet off set around the toilet helped my husband find the toilet.

Or these anti strip Jumpsuits for people with dementia

http://www.silverts.com/products/index.cfm?fuseaction=productdetail & productno=50\

830 & gender=men & categoryid=1

If you can dress him in depends and a Special Jumpsuit, he can not pull his

pants down. This didn't work for my husband, because he was combative when I

tried to change him and get the clothes off, but I have read where these kinds

of adaptive clothing helped others.

Jan

Rhonda wrote:

At night my dad will wake up and can't find the bathroom that is in his

bedroom. He will pee

in the closet or go in the living room and pee on a chair. I asked his caregiver

if he should

wear Depends diapers, but she said that it doesn't work because he pulls them

down, like he

would his underwear, to pee. Last night he was in one of the other residents

closets looking

for the bathroom, luckily the nighttime caregiver caught him before any damage

was done.

During the day it's not a problem, because the caregivers will direct him to the

bathroom.

Between the wandering at night and now this problem, I don't know what to do.

Any ideas???

Rhonda

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