We have a family member who is cleaning and moving my mother n laws personal belongings to different areas of the home. when she asks for someone to get them for her and they are not where she put them she gets upset and seems to get more confused. Should her personal belonging be left she kept them.
So...short and simple if possible leave all personal items where they belong and where the person is more apt to be able to retrieve them. Hard enough to not get frustrated when you misplace something let alone someone moving things.
If things have to be removed that is one thing but other items that pose no danger should be left alone.
If this relative who is doing the cleaning has some problem understanding this simple concept, then I hope you can hire a cleaning person who will do as instructed.
Sometimes change is inevitable. I had to completely rearrange our bedroom when a hospital bed was brought in for my husband. By moving objects we made it possible for me to continue to sleep in the same room with him. That was a higher priority than keeping all the objects in place. Plus he needed a lot of new objects in that room.
Sometimes objects need to be removed because they now pose a risk.
We can't always keep everything exactly the same, but things should only be moved for well thought-out reasons.
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