Thank you for your quick response. My mother has not been diagnosed with
dementia or Alzheimers yet but perhaps that is where it is headed.
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>From: "Rosemary Krysinski" <rkrysinski@beanstalk.net>
>To: caretalk@asktransitions.com
>Subject: Re: Question: Fixation in Elderly Adults
>Date: Sun, Nov 12, 2000, 6:35 PM
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> 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:
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>> 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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