Solutions for Missing Laundry in MC?

If there is a laundry hamper in his room is it labeled "Family does Laundry"? Doing the laundry yourself with really big name tags is the only way I found to keep things straight. You might also put his name on his closet doors, that might cut down on "shopping" a little. I sometimes suspected staff of "borrowing" items for other residents on an emergency basis, although that did not happen often. Some families just do not keep enough clothing available. I gave up on keeping my own sheets even though I put name, room #, and even facility name on the sheets. The facility did not put sheets and bedspreads in the clothes hamper. They were taken out of the room entirely when they were changed or soiled, and were sent outside to a professional laundry. You were lucky if they were sent back to the same facility, let alone the same room. I could not make the identifying info big enough that they would take the time to read it.

I would talk to some of the other residents family members and see if they are also having problems. There is strength in numbers. If enough of the family members agreed you might be able to come up with some kind of lost list that the facility could post somewhere. They will not want to, it would make them look bad but losing that many items when you have to replace them gets expensive.

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DIY can cut down on some, but not all of this problem.

There are a number of ways things can disappear— the hunter-gatherers are one problem. Incontinence might play into this. If dad's not quite fully there, he may be tossing wet or soiled clothing. Sometimes things that have been badly soiled are discarded rather than dealt with in house.

One thing a friend did was to find a decent charity thrift store and buy clothing for her dad there. One benefit was that most things were already broken in and comfortable.

HB

this is a common occurrence in memory care. I bought shirts on sale and at the thrift store. I doubt there is a solution.

I’ve had this problem with my mom also. We labeled clothes, but I’m not sure how much it helped. I really think it was the facility staff that just wasn’t paying attention to what they were doing. Mom once asked where I bought a pair of pants, but they weren’t her pants. I told her she should give them to staff to figure out where they came from, but she liked them and didn’t want to give them up. She would wear the pants for a few weeks and then they would find a new home. At the same time she would be missing a shirt or a pair of pants that belonged to her, so I just kind of rolled with it. At one point she actually insisted I bring a big tub to her in Al so she could wash all her clothes by hand and hang them in her shower to dry. I did not bring her the tub, but she still washed things in the sink so they wouldn’t get lost. I bought her clothes at discount stores and good will. It was frustrating and even good will prices add up, but I have not found a solution.

do you iron on label the socks? Once I did this, I noticed a complete change. All her stuff started coming back. It was like ‘oh wow she means business. She’s ironing on labels to each sock. Lol.’