She has been diagnosed with LBD and has started needing to wear depends all the time. Well, she has started wearing them on the outside of her pants. I put it on her the correct way but when I come back later to check on her, she's put it on the outside. Her pants are wet + her bedding. I am so tired of having to keep doing laundry. I am her caregiver 24/7. I can't watch her every second. I suppose I can try keeping gowns on her and hide the pants. It is so hard . Just took her to another Dr today, concerning a UTI.
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To the person with the puddles on the floor would your loved one use a comode if placed at the bedside. Otherwise keep a mop and bucket close by and mop your way in. if you have carpet or hard wood but a piece of linolium as big as the room and just mop that. You can staple it down round the edges if necessary. protect the matress with a waterproof cover and buy a vinyl covered chair if he sits in the room. You can throw a washable blanket over it.
Try to address the behavior after she's better if it persists, it may not.
Worst case, no more pants but gowns & dresses?
Would she be willing to wear the depends you help her put on, then her pants, and then some larger depends? (At least in the house.) That could possibly serve her need to wear them on the outside, and your need to have them fulfill their function!
Does Mom have a uti? Dementia symptoms and behaviors generally get much worse and wackier with a uti, and will go back to baseline when the infection is cleared up. That could be very good news for you!