- I am convinced the fear of not being ready

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is the problem in my MIL case. I suspect that is your problem as

well - my question does she do the same thing when no one is coming

in the morning. Also my grandparents when they were older (and I

had for my children ) used a mattress pad that is thermostatically

controlled. This eliminates the worry too of an electric blanket

being doubled over or shorting out. A timer - I've never used for

this purpose but for lamps and other appliances - you could set to

come on in evening and go off in AM. We went to a Digital clock a

couple years ago and it does help sometimes - but if she happens to

awake at 9 or 9:15 at night it panics her that it's morning. As I

said time was one of her cognitive functions that went very early.

It doesn't seem to help to tell her to look outside it's dark. So

far we're trying to " teach " hopeless I know that she needs to trust

us to get her up. At times it helps. Oh someone mentioned the

experience of seeing someone or something in the road. loves

to tell people she gave up driving voluntarily - that she saw a

truck in the road and swerved and that could be dangerous so she

stopped driving on her own. She is SO PROUD of that. Also we've

tried over and over in past to say Buster (our cocker) isn't barking

there is not one here. She'll say that's right but cognitively now

it's just beyond her. Sandy (OH)