Accepting Repetitive Alzheimer's Behavior as the New Normal

It was only after I finally understood that the behaviors my mother was engaging in were normal for a person living with Alzheimer's disease that I was able to finally accept Alzheimer's.I contemplated the problem for years.how can you stop a person that has Alzheimer's disease from asking the same question over and over?How can you stop a person living with Alzheimer's disease fromengaging in the same behaviors over and over?Help me.Article -10 Things a Person Living with Dementia Would Tell You If They CouldBy Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomWe enlisted the advice of a geriatric psychiatrist to help us come up with a solution to a problem --the Alzheimer's patient was shaving four times a day. The simple solution:...one way to reduce the behavior is to remove all shaving equipment from the home....no access to razors and shaving cream, no shaving. If the person truly has Alzheimer's disease and is at least in the moderate stage, they may likely forget about the shaving and look to something else to fulfill whatever unmet need the shaving represented to the person.I liked that solution. I liked it because it never dawned on me. I liked it becauseI learned an important lesson.Article -Repetitive Questions and Learning How to Communicate Effectively with a Person Living with DementiaBut what do you do when someone keeps asking you what day it is?Or, any other repetitive question? Ignore them? Might work.Do as I did? Here is an example.I put the newspaper in front of my moth...
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