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Looking at a picture and repeating over and over and again about the ring on his finger. Telling me she doesn't like butter or milk everyday as I am preparing food for her.
Carol Bradley Bursack, Sep 5, 2010
Over the span of two decades author, columnist and speaker Carol Bradley Bursack cared for a neighbor and six elderly family members. Because of this experience, Bradley Bursack created a portable support group, the book "Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories."
This sounds like dementia, but certainly a doctor should be consulted. Obsessions can come from OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder), Alzheimer's, medication interactions, an infection, or as you suggest, other mental illness. It seems to me that she needs a good physical as well as a workup to determine other causes. Carol
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