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We just recently had a story in our local news about an elderly woman with dementia who was living with her daughter and who wandered out of the house one evening after everyone else was in bed. It took 6 days for the police to find her dead body not far from home.
You are now at the pint where you MUST do whatever it takes to keep your husband safe, and that just may mean placing him in a Memory Care facility.
I wish you well.
The possibility of my wife getting out of bed and trying to get out of the house kept me from ever getting a decent night’s sleep. After she left thru the window one day, I secured both the doors and windows- a very unsafe thing to do. Her wandering, my lack of sleep, and my constant hyper anxiety led me to realize I needed to start looking for memory care.
So you may try one of the methods mentioned above, they might work. It’s possible, also, that this phase of his symptoms may pass. I would suggest, however, that you begin to consider placement in a MC facility if the wandering and other behaviors become too much for you.
Yes, get a tracking device [others on the forum will give suggestions] BUT also consider ways to keep hubby from leaving the house. Is his wandering during the day or night? If at night, I read if you place a black throw-rug at the exit doors he may think the rug is a hole in the floor, thus will not try to step on it. Take the rug away at day break.
To alert you that hubby has opened the door, I have on the inside door handle sleigh bells that jingle quite loud, have had them for years just for security. There are also door alarms, but that might scare him into running out the front door.
Hope you can find something that helps.