Does anyone deal with caregiving for someone that pees on the floor?
I have tried many different things to avoid this to save my wood floors and sanity. He wears depends but remembers you take it out standing up not knowing where it lands.
I have a friend whose husband peed on the dining room chairs because he thought they were the toilet when he was drunk. He didn't have dementia, and she's still with him, and despite his going to rehab many times he's still an alcoholic. This must be co-dependence at its worst. She does have another place where she could live. I do not understand who is sicker, him or her.....
You can consider anti-strip clothing so that he can't get to his Depends unless someone is with him to help. This assures someone will be with him in the bathroom.
Maybe have an aid with him so he can be redirected into NOT peeing on the floor. Otherwise, I don't know how to manage that. Incontinence is one of the reasons my mom is now in assisted living. I just couldn't deal with it in my house.
It sounds like you're going to have to accompany him every time he has to go to the bathroom(or hire someone to go with him)to help him make sure he gets the pee in the toilet and not on the floor. Also overnight you can use a urinal so he doesn't have to get out of bed. Of course you will have to hold it for him. You can also have him sit down every time he has to pee instead of standing up. And you can talk to his urologist about having a supra pubic catheter put in. That way you will only have to empty the bag twice a day. All of the above I had to do with my late husband as he only had use of one arm/hand after his stroke and developed essential tremors in his one good arm which made him getting his pee in the toilet a crapshoot.
And then of course, often these incontinence issues are the straw that breaks the camels back, and folks end up having to place their loved one in a facility, as it just gets to be too much for them. I wish you the best in getting things figured out to make your life a little easier.
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Also overnight you can use a urinal so he doesn't have to get out of bed. Of course you will have to hold it for him.
You can also have him sit down every time he has to pee instead of standing up. And you can talk to his urologist about having a supra pubic catheter put in. That way you will only have to empty the bag twice a day.
All of the above I had to do with my late husband as he only had use of one arm/hand after his stroke and developed essential tremors in his one good arm which made him getting his pee in the toilet a crapshoot.
And then of course, often these incontinence issues are the straw that breaks the camels back, and folks end up having to place their loved one in a facility, as it just gets to be too much for them.
I wish you the best in getting things figured out to make your life a little easier.