DH always wants to leave the house

My DH seems to be getting into this as well… "let's go, go, go". Some days are worse than others and redirecting is hit, or miss. When it's a miss, we ride around, go to lunch, etc., several times a day. I just keep the jeep filled up with gas, cause I never know what the day will bring.

I have seen others comment about how "clingy" their loved one is when they are around. I too found that true when I brought in some help. If I stayed present, my dear wife would focus solely on me and stop interacting with the caregiver so I quickly learned that I had to remain out of sight if I wanted any value of the time the caregiver was here. Your experiences with your loved one wanting to go outside, take walks ,go, go, go are such a surprise for me. My dear wife quickly went to just the opposite. Her safe world began to shrink. She would not go for a ride, she would not step outside, her world became basically three rooms in our home. Amazing how this condition affects each victim so differently. Makes the challenge of navigating the care for our loved one so difficult.

I wonder whether the go-go-go behavior is just doing an activity he's still capable of. DW kept wanting to do laundry, even if there weren't many dirty clothes. It was something to do. She wanted to wash dishes by hand, rather than put them in the dishwasher, and she insisted on drying them, rather than let them drip dry in the dish rack. She has an unquenchable desire to be useful.