Can we talk about the issue of clothing with a person suffering with AD or D?

Oh dear my mum dosnt hang up her dirty clothes she throws them under the kitchen table OR she will collect a pile and dump them into the nice clean fresh basket of CLEAN clothes so i have to wash them all again?
Yes one day i was sitting in the docs surgery and smelt pee i thought maybe some smelly person was in before me until i realised it was ME yes my top smelt of pee from mums basket! UGH! i now have to wash iron and do my clothes seperately and lock my bedroom so she cant get at them. I mean what a life!

Hey who hasn't sniffed a butt to see if they went #2...As Jeanne said gotta do what you gotta do! LOL

Good girl. Then you pull them out and wash them. She can't put them on if they are in the wash. Tell your hubby to wake up and smell the coffee.

Ya gotta do what ya gotta do!

oh kazzaa, live and learn with this disease, right?
When my aunt gets up early, which isn't very often anymore, she puts her day clothes on before I know she's up without changing her soiled Depends, then sits in her chair and gets those soiled. So, I took all of her clothes out of her closet and put them in the guest room where she never goes. This way, she's in her jammies until I bring her a fresh, clean outfit for the day. Tired of washing clothes unnecessarily. Of course, I can't help the times she gets up before we do and puts her pants and shirt on, then goes back to bed! Weird. She's been doing that a lot lately.

It's very simple. If the dog wants to roll in her clothes, they need washing.

I understand about the dirty clothes. If I am not watching my husband after he takes a bath (which is not often) he will hang the dirty depends back in the closet. I don't stress over it. I just put them in a plastic bag and throw it in the garbage. As far as wearing the same clothes everyday. I hang out clean clothes where he can see them so after his bath he just puts them on. As for the teeth. I had to laugh because he put them in the garbage twice. The first time he said they were in the car so I did not argue I just let him look for them in the car. Then I realized he had thrown them in the garbage and I had to go dumpster diving (thank God the garbage truck had not picked up that day). I found the teeth after dumping all our garbage in the street and picking through it. When I handed them to him he just looked at me and said he did not do that. I guess I took them out of his mouth and thru them in the garbage.

Mom 94,advanced dementia see's no reason to change her clothes and obviously has lost her sense of smell.Taking her clothes away (eliminating dressers/closet ) would really upset her as she often spends time rearranging them sooooooo...I sneak in every night, take out the used and leave the clean.She hasn't noticed yet and for that I am thankful!

DD i have decluttered this house so many times over the last 5yrs and went looney from her clothes! so i thought dont get mad get organised..........i organised all her clothes summer,winter etc hung them up in 2 spare rooms nice and neatly LOCKED the doors with keys and hid keys and now they are all back to chaos again. She went MAD last week and said its my house and i can get into my rooms if i want so i chucked the keys at her to calm her down and now theres clothes on the floor in both rooms and i just couldnt be bothered it makes me cry in frustration now so i will just get the cleaner to do it. Its so tiring just feel like its "groundhog day".
The rooms are full of dirty depends,clothes oh and HEY i found her teeth in there today!!!!!!! LOL she was thrilled! yeh im thrilled too!!

Yep, I get the, "There's no way I did that." look all of the time. And, we DO get used to this. In the beginning, I stressed at each turn, walking away shouting, "That f**ing disease!!" (Better to blame the disease, not the person, I know it's hard) Now, I just deal with the stuff as it comes and shrug it off, for the most part. I'm still dealing with my feelings. You'd think after 2 and a half years, I'd be cool as a cucumber, but it doesn't happen like that for me. I wish it did.