Care recipient (cr) is wandering during the day this may include wandering into other resident’s rooms in a senior housing community information this behavior is usually associated with memory loss

Try: The cr may simply require regular exercise and attention provide safe areas for the cr to walk accompany the cr on walks and make this a regular activity if the cr enjoys it the cr may be looking for purposeful activity talk to friends and family to find out what kind of work the cr performed during productive adult years it may be possible to mimic this and give the cr a job to do that keep busy and provide him or her with a sense of usefulness and accomplishment for example try giving the cr a stack of mail several sheets of paper to fold ask the cr to stuff the mail into envelopes place several small baskets around the cr’s place of residence direct the cr to deliver the mail to the baskets

Materials: Paper small baskets

Categories: Behavior Challenging, Cognitive Intellectual, Emotional Psychological, Medical Physical, Somewhat Aware, So-So L T Memory, Poor L T Memory, So-So S T Memory, Poor S T Memory

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Keywords: Elopement pacing fidgety

*This information is listed as a Tip and is not explicitly medically licensed

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