Door Locks

Door Locks   Sunday, May 20, 2012

Locked in again… Mom locks her bedroom or the bathroom door and then can not unlock it and gets hysterical. She has trouble manipulating door locks which I hear is common in the later part of dementia and can cause her to grow angry or frightened. We keep a spare key, those little hooked slot for non-key doors, on a ledge above the door. But even then time it takes me to get there and get it unlocked makes her crazy. And then there is the bedroom closet sliding doors. She keeps knocking them off the track and breaking the bottom guides. There must be a better way to deal with them…