Appropriate Medication for Senior Citizen ?

[BIG BOPPER]

My 90 year old Mother-In-Law lives with my wife & I along with my disabled adult step-son. Mother-In-Law is in excellent health with the exception of the fact that her memory is starting to diminish. Our Family M.D. has already prescribed a very mild Alzheimers Medication for her but because she is so active , she wreaks havoc by doing things like putting covers or parts from 2 new expensive small kitchen appliances into the garbage causing me to have to buy replacement parts, putting 2x the maximum amount of water into the coffeemaker resulting in weak coffee spilling all over the kitchen floor, making & attempting to feed sandwiches 4 times to my step-son despite the fact that she has been told, many times, that he has an eating disorder & can only eat pureed food --- Short of something as severe as Haldol; Is there an appropriate medication to discuss, with the M.D., that would sedate her where she would sit calmly & watch TV instead of running around like a whirling dervish ?

[canam]

They could try some kind of tranquilizer, but very often those kinds of medications do not work. The danger is if she should decide to take a walk and not know how to get home. She really needs close observation because she could do some things that put the whole family in danger. I would talk to her doctor and see if there is an effective medication that would keep her a little bit snowed.