Need alarm help or tips. DH gets up & goes into the closet instead of bathroom

Diane, can you lock the closet? Many folks say that a simple slide bolt lock placed above eye level might work here, as PWD don't look up. I realize that in an apartment there might be restrictions on adding hardware but this is one where it might be better to ask forgiveness than permission. Your landlords won't be happy if he pees in the closet either....

Are you in the same room over night? My friend had a bedside alarm pad the alerted her iPhone. I'm not sure if the alert went to her Apple Watch. Mom's bedroom was downstairs and the rest upstairs, so it worked best when she and her son split the night and we in the nearby family room or office.

I would do that, plus a lock of some kind. Since you're in an apartment, you might not want to drill into a door. There are slide-on handle grips that would slow him down for a regular doorknob. For bi-folds there are stops that slide on the top of the doors or even a ribbon tying the knobs together can work.

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There are door stop style alarms that would trigger if he cracked the closet door, this would alert you he was up to direct him to the bathroom. But for silent options I would start with "babyproofing" products that may prevent him from opening the closet such as handle covers. You will have to find ways to shut him out of problem areas so the bathroom is the only thing available but even then he will likely need supervision in the toilet soon.

With my father, we tried a bed alarm that was a pad which went under the sheets and alerted us if he tried to get out of bed. It really didn't work well for us.

This time, with my mother, we bought this https://a.co/d/6vWRGkr and it's working much better to make us aware that she's trying to get out of bed now that she's a high fall risk and one of us needs to help her walk. We use it in conjunction with this baby monitor which has a camera so we can see what is happening if we aren't in the room. https://a.co/d/dYSFjLg The combination of these two devices seems to be working for us. Mom has a habit of being absolutely silent when she moves around so the baby monitors that just do audio weren't helpful. She also doesn't "want to bother us" by waking us up at night and thinks she can do everything she's always done, so we had to do something.

The only drawback to the bed alarm is that the receiver is quite loud even on the lowest setting. It also sets off what my sister described as "disco lights" in Mom's bedroom when it goes off. LOL! At least that makes her pause long enough for my sister or me to get there to help her.