I have never met my next door neighbour she is in her nineties has dementia and never leaves her house/answers the door. She has carers who come twice a day from what we have seen. (All relevant). For at least a year now she regularly has her tv on extremely loud until very late 2/3am or sometimes all night. I assume she falls asleep with it on. It is that loud we can clearly hear what she is watching and word for word what they are saying.
We have two young children who already keep us up at night. I am a light sleeper and find it very hard to get to sleep with it. I often put white noise on my phone to try help blur it out. The other night though it was so loud even with the white noise next to my head I could hear it. That morning I waited for the carers to arrive and went round. They didn't answer so I ended up writing a note. I wasn't rude in the letter just explained the situation.
Anyway later on the carer and neighbours daughter came around. They weren't rude and apologised. They said the only solution they can think is when the second carer visits around 5pm is to switch the tv off and hide the remote control. I thought great that should solve it. However they then added how the tv is the neighbours only company and so she will be lonely. I now feel really bad. She is alone all day in her house and after 5pm can't even have tv for company.
I did suggest she watches tv downstairs. Only to find out that the tv is downstairs already so it must be that loud we can clearly hear it upstairs.
Am I right to feel bad? I just can't think of any other solution.