My mother's home is a bungalow. I think she might likely have dementia because she's paranoid. She has two smoke alarms in the hall. They are not connected to a system. They are separate. She has two because she is paranoid. It's a bungalow and there's no need for two of them. One would be more than enough.
The one up the hall keeps going off. It was only put on the ceiling this summer so the battery should still be good. But there's no fire. There's no steam from showers or cooking. There's no candles.
Yesterday the smoke alarm went off and then again this afternoon.
I do vape but usually in the sitting room and with a window off but I don't spend all my time vaping. I vaped yesterday but and hour and half went by and I didn't vape and I was in the kitchen and the smoke alarm with off. It can't possibly be that.
My mother is being paranoid. She wants me to have the answers for this and I am thinking a battery issue but then she won't let me touch it.
GPs keep dismissing my concerns and I don't have a diagnosis for her. I see behavioural stuff with her all the time and GPs are citing memory loss to me.
What the heck - about the smoke alarms?
I think if it happens again I will say it's battery and I will dismantle the smoke alarm up the hall when she's not at home. She can still manage some stuff within her day to day life so next time she leaves I will dismantle it.
It's ahouse that's not insulated by the way and it's cold a lot of the time so it's not heat related.