Today when I arrived, Luis told me he needed to talk to me about a new issue. Mom is now in a cycle where she continually thinks she needs to use the bathroom. After monitoring her, they want to keep her bathroom door locked so she HAS to ask them for help. This is what we want anyway. She won’t use her alert necklace. Ideally if they can get her to ask them for help, and/or push her alert button, she will start to always ask them for help even if the bathroom is left unlocked.
Luis told me he tried to get her to go to activities in the library. She said no. So I asked her if she’d show me where the activities are being held. She said yes. On the way there I told her she should try to go to these things because she would be with other people, and she’s always loved being around people. She said yes. So in the library, George got a chair for her. Then she wanted me to sit so I got another chair. George led them with tossing/passing/kicking a beachball around. Mom did better than I expected. Involved and following instructions.
Then I left to meet Daniel to hook up her computer. He took charge, and voila it worked! I even remembered her password lol. I talked with Daniel about her phone being disconnected during the night. She is calling Pat a lot the last couple days to tell her the bathroom is locked. (And Kenny told me later that she has also called him.)
So Daniel is going to talk with Luis & Janette about how to handle the phone. Mom came back from activities and I read to her some email she had. Then she asked to talk to Kenny so i called him and she spoke with him a bit, and talked about their new dog Buzby. Then I put Downton Abbey on.
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