What If Your Loved One Keeps Telling You the Same Stories Over and Over?

If I wanted her to be “normal” I might have told her she’d told that story the last time and that we should talk about something else.By Marie MarleyAlzheimer's Reading RoomMylast article was about what to do if your loved one keeps asking you the same questions over and over.Today I ’m writing about what to do if the person keeps telling you the same storyrepeatedly.3 Ways to Redirect a Dementia Patient and Embrace RealitySubscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading - This is a Free ServiceAs I ’ve mentioned before I volunteer to visit three ladies with Alzheimer’s at a local memory care facility.During a visit with one of them – we’ll call her Ruth - she told me a long story about how during World War II, the army used to arrange for young ladies to visit a nearby base on Friday nights to dance with the soldiers. She was one of the girls.Coping with DementiaAll the details she told me were very clear in her mind (although she didn ’t remember what she’d had for lunch or even if she’d had lunch).She said the army made sure all the girls had “good reputations” and didn’t do anything risqué during the visits.She mentioned that most of the soldiers didn ’t know how to dance well but just stomped out a “two step.”How to ... Alzheimer'sShe also told me about her husband ’s deficient dancing. She said he had no sense of rhythm and that this drove her crazy.It was an interesting story. But the thing was that she told me the same story the next time I vi...
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