Channel 43 is your favorite TV channel.
http://seniorfraud.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-golden-girls.html
On the table next to your chair, there is a taped piece of paper with large letters "43", just in case you forget which station you like.
Today when I arrive, the room is quiet. The TV is not on. You have been reading.
Now you realize that usually when I am there, Family Feud is on the TV. We have come to enjoy watching Family Feud together. Even I, who typically would never watch a game show, can now easily spend 10-15 minutes watching Family Feud.
"Turn the TV on - channel 63 ", you tell me.
I am standing with the clicker, trying to get the system to obey.
I press 4 and then 3. Up pops channel 33.
"yes, channel 33", you say.
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Thursday, January 1, 2015
Late night auto-dial on the phone
This is my mistake. I moved the phone to the right side of the chair a few days ago, thinking it would be easier to reach. However, you have been confusing it with the TV clicker since then.
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Its New Years Eve, after midnight. Its time for bed. You get up, turn off the TV, leave the room, and then return. It is apparent you are trying to turn the TV back on. But, instead, you have the phone in your hand. I can hear the tones of the different numbers as you push the buttons, randomly. Unfortunately, because of auto-dial, you call someone:
"Who is this I am calling?", you say.
Its like the adults who speak in non - word tones on Charlie Brown's The Great Pumpkin- we hear the tone of the person on the other end, but we don't know exactly who it is, we can't hear exactly what they are saying.
"I was just playing with some shoe devices here on my table, I didn't call you intentionally....But, you know, I have 2 pair of slippers... " (and from there he goes on into a long explanation about how the slipper doesn't quite fit -- and how he used to sell slippers. This is an old shoe store merchant talking. He goes into great detail about the slippers....eventually volunteering to give one of the old slippers to the husband of the person he has called. The conversation goes on about 5 minutes).
OH NO __ WHO HAS HE CALLED??? I HAVE TO STOP THIS -- GET IN THE CAR AND GET OVER THERE AND GET HIM OFF THE PHONE!!
"How did I call you on this?? ........I've got these dialing deals, I 've got 2 of them on my table here, and I just hit the one, and you answered"
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We get in the car, but en route realize that you have turned off the lights and are in bed.
We turn around and return home.
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I play it back
I hear the person say "go to bed" and you say " Oh yeah, I am going to bed". And, with that, after several failed attempts of dialing nobody,you hang it up, turn off the lights, and go to bed.
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Tomorrow we commit to making the old fashioned phone reach the chair. No more fancy auto-dial-capable-wireless phone / TV clicker look-alike devices for you.
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Notice the "word salad" - replacing the correct word with another word - "shoe devices" and "Dialing deals" in reference to the TV clicker and the phone.
Here is a link to other examples http://www.lbda.org/node/362
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How easy it is to mess up the equilibrium/routine of a person with dementia -- as the dementia experts all know.
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Its New Years Eve, after midnight. Its time for bed. You get up, turn off the TV, leave the room, and then return. It is apparent you are trying to turn the TV back on. But, instead, you have the phone in your hand. I can hear the tones of the different numbers as you push the buttons, randomly. Unfortunately, because of auto-dial, you call someone:
"Who is this I am calling?", you say.
Its like the adults who speak in non - word tones on Charlie Brown's The Great Pumpkin- we hear the tone of the person on the other end, but we don't know exactly who it is, we can't hear exactly what they are saying.
"I was just playing with some shoe devices here on my table, I didn't call you intentionally....But, you know, I have 2 pair of slippers... " (and from there he goes on into a long explanation about how the slipper doesn't quite fit -- and how he used to sell slippers. This is an old shoe store merchant talking. He goes into great detail about the slippers....eventually volunteering to give one of the old slippers to the husband of the person he has called. The conversation goes on about 5 minutes).
OH NO __ WHO HAS HE CALLED??? I HAVE TO STOP THIS -- GET IN THE CAR AND GET OVER THERE AND GET HIM OFF THE PHONE!!
"How did I call you on this?? ........I've got these dialing deals, I 've got 2 of them on my table here, and I just hit the one, and you answered"
*******************************************
We get in the car, but en route realize that you have turned off the lights and are in bed.
We turn around and return home.
******************************************
I play it back
I hear the person say "go to bed" and you say " Oh yeah, I am going to bed". And, with that, after several failed attempts of dialing nobody,you hang it up, turn off the lights, and go to bed.
****************************
Tomorrow we commit to making the old fashioned phone reach the chair. No more fancy auto-dial-capable-wireless phone / TV clicker look-alike devices for you.
******************************************
Notice the "word salad" - replacing the correct word with another word - "shoe devices" and "Dialing deals" in reference to the TV clicker and the phone.
Here is a link to other examples http://www.lbda.org/node/362
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How easy it is to mess up the equilibrium/routine of a person with dementia -- as the dementia experts all know.
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