@mickey5455 In the beginning I would explain to my husband how things worked, such as the remote. Thinking if he understood better what was happening he would be able to remember or figure it out on his own. Now I realize that doesn't work. I show/tell him how to work the remote and we just move on. However, too often I find myself just doing it for him. Wrong! He just became more independent on me. So I take a real deep breath and try to talk him through it. That approach takes much more patience but it does seem to slow his decline a little.