Why Dementia Causes Repetitive Behaviors

ask the same question over and over and over in the same conversation. Mm-hmm. Because they don't remember that they just asked it 5 seconds ago because of the short-term memory. It's gone, or it's malfunctioned, or it's short-circuited for a temporary period of time. Or the other thing that people do, they fidget. With things, with their hands, their fingers, or they tell the same story, like, "Oh, I had an experience once upon a time when I was a teenager and I went to the beach and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." And then 5 seconds later, they're telling the same exact story again in that same conversation. These are called repetitive behaviors and they are actually fairly common. In people living with dementia because of the short-term memory kind of flipping on and flipping off. It's like a switch, and they don't— they seriously don't remember that they just either asked you that question or