how do I protect wall-to-wall carpeting from dementia and incontinence?

Post date: 2021-07-29 04:26:47
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due to some fairly sudden and serious health concerns, my elderly in-laws have had to sell their house and move into a rental apartment. due to their compressed timeline and the current state of the housing market, the only apartment they could find comes with wall-to-wall carpeting. since the health issues in question include dementia and incontinence, we're trying to figure out how to prevent the carpeting from taking too much abuse.

apart from the obvious spot-cleaning of any accidents, the best solution we've come up with so far is a whole bunch of area rugs with plastic somehow affixed to the underside (?) but I'm wondering if the hive mind can come with any other suggestions for us. possibly irrelevant details: they'll be in a ~1200sqft 2BR/1BA unit with in-unit laundry, located 7-8 minutes from us by car.

(we are aware that the actual solution will probably involve a full-time health aide, or an assisted-living or memory-care facility; we are actively looking into these things already. I'm simply looking for a stop-gap solution at the moment.)

thanks for any help you can pass along!
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