The Newest Gadgets & Appliances Not Always Best for Alzheimer’s Patients
There’s an interesting post at Life Without Memories about “Newer Isn’t Always Better.” We’re told that isn’t always to our advantage to purchase the latest gadgets and appliances for our family member with Alzheimer’s or for our home when they’re living there. They may have great difficulty learning to use these items.
It’s also difficult for them to comprehend what these items are for and how to use them because they may be in an earlier era of their lives when modern implements didn’t exist. For instance, as my mother asvanced in her Alzheimer’s journey, she probably would have known how to use a dasher butter churn. However, figuring out the workings of an electric mixer or electric churn would have been beyond her.
When Mother lived in our home, she began putting magazine pages down the toilet. Then I realized she was back in her girlhood when they had the outhouse (called “garden house” in refined society!) and often used magazines or the Sears catalog.
Another time she asked me where we put the wood in the electric cook stove. For years, when she was growing up and later, at the farmhouse where I was a child, she cooked on a wood burning stove.
We simply have to realize that no amount of explanation will enable an Alzheimer’s victim to use most modern gadgets once they’ve regressed beyond a certain era.
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