Nice touches for assisted living apartment

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I decorated my mom’s room with framed art and photographs from her home. She didn’t care about any of it. Her only interest is “word search” books so we keep her supplied with those. Extra pajama bottoms because she wets them.

Your disdain for your mother shows in your post. I feel sorry for her. I hope she has better people around her.

[Anonymous]

My dad would remove the pictures on his wall, sometimes several times a day, until he settled in. They were all copies, so they could have been replaced if lost/broken. Also we took some of his work awards that he was proud of.

Ymmv, but my dad was a gadgets guy and over the years we brought him several of the solar flower bobbleheads for his windowsill, which he enjoyed.

Tv/dvd player for movies. We kept him well supplied with (fairly innocuous) movies which sometimes were shown for movie night on the large tv.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I decorated my mom’s room with framed art and photographs from her home. She didn’t care about any of it. Her only interest is “word search” books so we keep her supplied with those. Extra pajama bottoms because she wets them.

Your disdain for your mother shows in your post. I feel sorry for her. I hope she has better people around her.

Maybe if she hadn’t been such a physically and emotionally abusive “mother” she would have “better” people around her.
Maybe if she had not been such a narcissistic snob she’d have some friends who cared enough to visit her. She doesn’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I decorated my mom’s room with framed art and photographs from her home. She didn’t care about any of it. Her only interest is “word search” books so we keep her supplied with those. Extra pajama bottoms because she wets them.

Your disdain for your mother shows in your post. I feel sorry for her. I hope she has better people around her.

Once the dementia is advanced, they don't care. We had to remove the pictures and curtains for safety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I decorated my mom’s room with framed art and photographs from her home. She didn’t care about any of it. Her only interest is “word search” books so we keep her supplied with those. Extra pajama bottoms because she wets them.

Your disdain for your mother shows in your post. I feel sorry for her. I hope she has better people around her.

Maybe if she hadn’t been such a physically and emotionally abusive “mother” she would have “better” people around her.
Maybe if she had not been such a narcissistic snob she’d have some friends who cared enough to visit her. She doesn’t.

You need to be in therapy and there is no "maybe" about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I decorated my mom’s room with framed art and photographs from her home. She didn’t care about any of it. Her only interest is “word search” books so we keep her supplied with those. Extra pajama bottoms because she wets them.

Your disdain for your mother shows in your post. I feel sorry for her. I hope she has better people around her.

Once the dementia is advanced, they don't care. We had to remove the pictures and curtains for safety.

I thought pp’s tone was pretty matter-of-fact. I think pp was thoughtful in decorating her room with personal items. Dementia isn’t pretty and you end up just doing what seems to work in the end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I decorated my mom’s room with framed art and photographs from her home. She didn’t care about any of it. Her only interest is “word search” books so we keep her supplied with those. Extra pajama bottoms because she wets them.

Your disdain for your mother shows in your post. I feel sorry for her. I hope she has better people around her.

Once the dementia is advanced, they don't care. We had to remove the pictures and curtains for safety.

I thought pp’s tone was pretty matter-of-fact. I think pp was thoughtful in decorating her room with personal items. Dementia isn’t pretty and you end up just doing what seems to work in the end.

I didn't see any distain. You are reading more into it. The important thing is enough clothing and visiting.

[Anonymous]

Look at her 00:07 post. Really? The woman has ongoing issues with her mother and she regularly trashes her on this site and in this forum. She is disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I decorated my mom’s room with framed art and photographs from her home. She didn’t care about any of it. Her only interest is “word search” books so we keep her supplied with those. Extra pajama bottoms because she wets them.

Your disdain for your mother shows in your post. I feel sorry for her. I hope she has better people around her.

Once the dementia is advanced, they don't care. We had to remove the pictures and curtains for safety.

+1. When DH and I went to take his dad out for lunch, FIL had wet his pants. We have a daughter with severe autism so we knew the drill. We guided him back to his room and DH changed him while I took care of the soiled clothes. Sometimes love looks like having enough clean, dry pair of bottoms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at her 00:07 post. Really? The woman has ongoing issues with her mother and she regularly trashes her on this site and in this forum. She is disgusting.

Her original post did not. You read that into it. What does that say about you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look at her 00:07 post. Really? The woman has ongoing issues with her mother and she regularly trashes her on this site and in this forum. She is disgusting.

Her original post did not. You read that into it. What does that say about you?

+2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I decorated my mom’s room with framed art and photographs from her home. She didn’t care about any of it. Her only interest is “word search” books so we keep her supplied with those. Extra pajama bottoms because she wets them.

Your disdain for your mother shows in your post. I feel sorry for her. I hope she has better people around her.

Maybe if she hadn’t been such a physically and emotionally abusive “mother” she would have “better” people around her.
Maybe if she had not been such a narcissistic snob she’d have some friends who cared enough to visit her. She doesn’t.

You need to be in therapy and there is no "maybe" about it.

New poster. Incontinence is not shameful and discussing it is not disdainful. Disability is a fact of life. It's you who is labeling it with disdain.