I think if the chain were the right length it would be OK.   It should not
be so long that they dangle and catch on things, and short enough that they
will lay on her mid chest where she will know they are there.   Nonetheless,
I would be very watchful to make sure she knows how to manage it for a
while.

Now I don't know what kind of a chain would work for hearing aids!  My
mother in law is always taking hers out and crumpling it up in a tissue
where it could easily be thrown out.

worth a try, I  think... can get elastic/cloth ones too...   though I
suspect she's likely to take them off too

my  MIL rarely wears her glasses any more either...  doesn't think of them
herself, anyway ...   guess there's nothing that she really wants to see any
more..doesn't follow TV (even her game shows) well enough  to care any more
*sigh*

To offset the choking hazard for babies, they have a pin on minder that
attaches to a pacifier with a single cord. I wonder if you could do
something similar for glasses. Didn't dashing continental counts once wear
monocles on a  ribbon pinned in a breast pocket?

Songbird

I'm not sure there is a point for your mother to have a chain on her
glasses. If she is at a point in the disease where she doesn't know
what her glasses are, or what they are for...or to notice a difference
when she is wearing them or not wearing them - she won't keep them on
her face no matter what you do. Plus she won't know what the chain is
for, so I can't see it accomplishing what you want (i.e. to keep her
from losing them). You'd only dangle glasses on a chain around your
neck if you realized what they were for, and why you might want them
hanging there (for convenience when you might need them). Other than
that, you'd feel this "thing" dangling around your neck for no purpose
you can fathom. be annoyed by it and pull it off.

My mother in law not only stopped wearing glasses, but also her
hearing aids and her teeth. I know its upsetting, since this was
upsetting to us as well, since loss of good vision, hearing and the
ability to eat properly negatively impacted her quality of life (or at
least WE saw it that way, not sure she was much bothered). I think we
mourned the loss of the hearing aids the most, since the deafness
without them made it almost impossible to communicate with her
verbally. It appeared to us she just had no clue what any of them were
for, and after much effort, we had to throw in the towel and put all
of them away - they were all constantly getting lost, we spent a lot
of time (as did staff) looking for them, and all of them were replaced
at least once due to them disappearing.

She had worn hearing aids for most of her adult life, so she would
have had longer term memories of them, and she was extremely deaf, but
even so, couldn't seem to understand what they were at all, and would
pull them out and do whatever with them (put them in the garbage, in
her pocket, in a shoe, in the hamper). Teeth she fought over - it was
world war three to get them in her mouth, and the minute your back was
turned, she take them out and they'd vanish again. Glasses she just
wouldn't leave on - and like your mom, she really couldn't see much
without them.

We were sad, but we finally accepted that it was pointless to keep
trying.

Sorry I don't have better ideas, but I don't think there is a good way
to resolve this that ends in your mom wearing her eye glasses.

Mary G.

Hi Dee,
Your post brought a smile to me. I remember well my Mom sleeping
with her glasses on and refusing to take them off. She also
started losing them when she went into the NH. I got her a pair
of new glasses
with the really curvy ear hook thingys. Almost old fashion type.
That made it pretty hard
for her to get them off. I've also read that Sharper Image has
something that you can glue onto objects and it has a remote that
will activate a beep/sound when needed.
My Mom is in late stage 7 and I've just recently not stressed
when she doesn't have her glasses on since they don't seem to
help anymore. Each person is different so you can probably figure
out when they are no longer useful to her by watching her actions
when she has them on and off.
Good Luck