Repetitive Questioning Exasperates Caregivers
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Repetitive Questioning Exasperates Caregivers
Repetitive questioning is due to an impaired episodic memory and is a frequent, often presenting, problem in patients with Alzheimer's disease (amnestic type). It is due to the patients' difficulties learning new information, retaining it, and recalling it, and is often aggravated by a poor attention span and easy distractibility. A number of factors may trigger and maintain repetitive question...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2333-7214,2333-7214
DOI: 10.1177/2333721417738915