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Re: Question: Fixation in Elderly Adults 

Date: 2000, Nov 12
From: Rosemary Krysinski <rkrysinski@beanstalk.net>

I use to manage a private retirement home and I found that many of my
ladies with Alzheimer's did just as your Mother is doing . There are many
Alzheimer support groups that can give you many helpful suggestions.
Good Luck
Rosemary

bstrombom@home.com wrote:

> My elderly mother fixates on a topic and cannot let go - this may go on
> for days or weeks at a time. Sometimes there is a request that must be
> filled immediatedly or there is a problem that has already been solved
> but we cannot talk rationally about it. Does anyone have any ideas on
> what is happening - and how to break into the fixation?
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