Now she is stealing
My mother (70, diagnosed 2yrs ago), is living in assisted living. In the past few months she has started taking things that aren’t hers. It started with clocks around the building because she was obsessed with what time meals were at. But the clocks would have the batteries taken out and be hidden in drawers. Then I found out from the staff that she was stealing pagers off the medication aides carts. Last week I found a cordless phone (again, from a med aide cart) and two more clocks. This week I found an arm blood pressure cuff and another pager.
Has anyone else experienced this with their Alzheimer loved one? Is there any stopping it? We bought her a big digital clock with date, time, etc but she ended up unplugging it and putting it in a drawer because she said she wasn’t sure it would change over to the right time the next day. ??
But also, if you have a resident stealing stuff off the medication aides carts aide carts maybe don’t leave them unattended in the hallways?