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Hope that helps.
You get to learn, too, when it is worthwhile to break the routine. When going to an afternoon concert is worth the disruption to the routine. When a vacation from routine is just what is needed. My husband's neurologist said many times "novelty-seeking experiences are therapeutic." He always asked if we'd taken any interesting trips or done anything out of the ordinary since we'd last seen him.
Balancing the benefit of routine and the benefit of breaking routine sometimes is another one of those skills we learn on the job!
Or ...go to a place that's very familiar and it was remodeled or items on shelves in a store were changed and you feel unorganized and lost?
I went to the Dr's with Mom one day, and you know how there's a bunch of different doors all in one hallway? Well the Dr. and I needed to chat without Mom hearing so we went into the hall left Mom in the room, chatted and when I turned around to go back into the room that I just a few minutes before walked out of I wasn't sure which door it was. I looked at the Dr and said "now I know how she feels."
We are all creatures of habit I think and with Dementia it's just a lot more intensified.
My Mom is so into the routine now that she knows when the good looking man brings up the food cart and where to sit to get the best view of him! She is confused about our Mother- Daughter relationship but knows I am the one that gets her ice cream
(I trained he to welcome me).
I knew this but I never look at it as a routine issue.
You are lucky that works for you. My mom hides her things all the time. I do a quick run through and if I don't find it, she'll say "I haven't had that in years, I must of lost it." Often it is her purse she had 5 minutes before. I have told her to place purses and such right on her dresser where she can see it. She always says someone will steal it from there. I cannot win.