In both cases (my mother and my FiL) it was dementia, but what helped us early on was realising and accepting that no matter what we did or tried, neither of them was ever going to be able to remember anything. They might look at a notice in nice big clear print, but as soon as they’d turned their heads away, they’d have forgotten.
Ditto e.g. phoning to remind them to take medication.
As soon as they’d put the phone down, they’d have forgotten.
When FiL was living with us, he would ask the same question over and over and over - I once counted 35 times in one hour.
I’m not a particularly patient person, and the slightest show of irritation was apt to provoke a rage, so I had to learn to make a sort of separate compartment in my head, where I could go on answering nicely, but mechanically,
I’m still not sure how I managed it, but the alternative could well have been FiLicide!
Have any of you got all electric cars? Pros and cons please.