My mom wants to sleep almost all day. She gets out of bed only to shower, use the restroom (which sometimes is too late because it’s already too late when she is in deep sleep). Otherwise she wants to sleep. She becomes very irritable and screams when we try to keep her awake to increase her consciousness level.
What should we do? Respond to her and let her sleep or try to drag her out of sleeping to the conscious world.
It’s a challenge to try keep her amused and busy so she doesn’t fall back to sleep.
please advise
It is a sign of decline.
Does she have any other medical conditions that are diagnosed or undiagnosed.
Depression
Bored
Do you try to keep her on a schedule?
Wake at 8am.
Shower if needed and dress.
Breakfast
Then maybe a walk
A few things around the house. Fold laundry, hang laundry. Dust, do the breakfast dishes. Whatever she can do.
Maybe a nap.
But get her up in an hour or so. So that she is not napping for a long time.
Snack.
Another walk.
Or a trip to the store or just a ride.
Help get dinner ready
Dinner.
Relax a bit then bed at a "normal" time.
I would make bathroom breaks a scheduled thing. About every 2 hours.
So that could be after breakfast, before and after her walk, before and after her nap....
If she has started this recently I would make a call to her doctor. If this has been going on for a long time It just may be that she is declining. I would inform the doctor. This can be part of the heart disease and it could be her way to deal with the anxiety that she has.
macular degeneration in both eyes that has almost taken over and limits her vision and therefore mobility, congestive heart failure limiting mobility as well,
so we are limited to watching(listening to TV), conversations, listening to Bible, … calling friends,…
apary from life necessities (showering, using restroom for peeing or pooping, eating) - there isn’t a lot to do especially with COVID restrictions as well
i think this might be mostly mental/psychological
Are there any times during the day when she seems more alert?
My LO has gone through periods in her AL even before her Covid infections, when she would sleep a lot and be restless at night.
Presently she sleeps pretty normal hours with a short nap some days during lunch.
With no apparent medical explanation I’d probably let her situation go for a week or two, while documenting her real time activity through the day, then consult the medical staff again.