When i was a Dental Nurse, I also had to clean the surgery. My Boss once asked me to itemise every cleaning thing I do and how long it takes me to do it, but I think that was more to see if we could be more efficient.

My favourite person to talk to was when I worked for a newspaper and there was this old lady we called BOBB - Batty Old Biddy in Blue because she had the onset of dementia and always wore this ratty old blue dress EVERY DAY!!!. She would come in and talk about the aliens and how they were fading her carpet and curtains and she had this thing about South African people too for some reason. She would also stand and read the paper and giggle to herself. It got to the stage though where i would worry about her if she didn't come in (she would be in every second day) because she still lived alone and only had meals on wheels and homecare to check on her.