Alzheimer's Mom seems to talk non-stop. Any advice?

The best thing to do is to listen with your eyes, nod your head that you are hearing things clearly, and ask her if she can to draw you some pictures regarding what she is talking about. That would help to keep the conversations going, but keep her engaged in drawing the pictures that helps to keep her focused on what she is saying, but not using her voice as much.

What I mean by not using the voice as much is that she can communicate with you in other ways by not talking. For example, she can communicate to you by drawing pictures.

I find that when that happens, I use other ways to get their attention and the chance for me to talk. I would suggest these ideas:
Vary your voice tone so that she is aware that you need to talk
Use something that will get her attention like a puppet or a picture
Raise your hand and tell her that you need to talk to her.
I hope this helps.

Disclaimer: I know this is an old question, but I stumbled upon it and would like to answer it for some future person who may also stumble upon it.

Here's my advise: This may not be the answer to the question you asked, and may even be more applicable to a future reader. This year my mom stopped being able to talk, except for gibberish. What I wouldn't do to have one more real conversation with her.... Forgive me if this sounds flip. I understand that this is a real issue you are dealing with and you want to know how to survive it. This may even be over-simplifying things, but, try to re-direct and simply enjoy the fact that your mom is ABLE to express an opinion, not matter what that opinion may be. Yes, look for solutions, but also realize that the fact that your mom with Alzheimer's is *talking to you is a blessing.

Christine73...You are right.
My husband had Alzheimer's for a bit over 10 years. He was non-verbal for about 7 of those. Maybe a word here and there but for sure the last 5 no words. Noise yes but no words.
I have told people in the support groups that I attend that yes it can be frustrating but at least you have some type of conversation. I often thought it would be wonderful to have to answer the same question over and over.
After my husband stopped walking I often thought ..wow this is sort of nice, I don't have to worry about him wandering, but going out to the store became more difficult.
I came to the conclusion that while there are frustrations for every frustration the resolution to that can bring another frustration or problem..
So embrace what you have at the moment for things will change and you never know what will happen.

mom, 96, takes no medicine , but she does take vitamins and eats 3 meals a day. Recently, she was only speaking erratically, but then yesterday she was like talking constantly all day. She made sense. Read everything that was words put on the TV and asked a lot of questions. We conversed as best we could, but she is mostly deaf and refuses to wear her hearing aids. By evening, my husband I were worn out with the roledex of chatter. She finally went to bed and slept for a long time. Today she is mostly quiet and watching football. Wonder what happened yesterday?

Whenever I am in this situation, I tend to do these things:

1. I show pictures as the client is talking.

2. I also give them something to use in order to point or raise their arms so that they are expressing their talking in a different manner.

Nothing works every time or for everyone. But when these work they make me smile. When mom first started repeating the same question over and over my son would answer with a completely off the wall response and it would be like skip jumping a stuck record player. The whole room would smile. More recently she will talk non stop and expecting response, and I find sitting next to her with a note pad and writing the words she is saying. I can see in her eyes she's less frantic and she feels that she is being heard. We have learned it's about the moments and they are few and far between. I'm not sure how anyone does it, but somehow we do.

my mom did this for a week, 97 Alzheimer patient, lives with us. She did this for 1 week, it stopped today. Never did this before. I had help to watch her for a week as we took a vacation. She has lived with us for 8 years. About drove us nuts. Hope the silence resumes tomorrow too. Would be interesting to know why it happened.

I should add, she made no sense this week . The thing a month ago , she did.

I can give you lots and lots of different things to think about, but the one thing that is the very best way is to just be there with your mom and let her know that you care for her in every way. To me, that is the best answer that I can give you.

My mother is also mom stop talking, ( I don't know, I just done know) on and on I ask her what's the matter mom she's says I don't know and laughs but I use a monitor in her room and mine so I can hear her if she calls for me, and didn't realize how much she just talks and talks. She is also not sleeping at night, she sleeps on and off during the day and when night time comes around she doesn't go to sleep til 1 or 2 or 3 am. It keeps me up and I'm not quite sure what to do about that Dr. Won't give her anything to sleep. Best of luck to you

Has anyone tried homeopathy?

Good luck and God bless you all!