Try: Some older care recipients cr are forgetful or struggle with absent-mindedness absent-mindedness is where a cr shows inattentive or forgetful behavior it can have three different causes a low level of attention blanking or zoning out intense attention to a single object of focus hyperfocus that makes a cr oblivious to events around him or her; or unwarranted distraction of attention from the object of focus by irrelevant thoughts or environmental events absent-mindedness is a mental condition in which the subject experiences low levels of attention and frequent distraction absent-mindedness is not a diagnosed condition but rather a symptom of boredom and sleepiness which people experience in their daily lives when suffering from absent-mindedness crs tend to show signs of memory lapse and weak recollection of recently occurring events this can usually be a result of a variety of other conditions often diagnosed by clinicians such as add and depression in addition to absent-mindedness leading to an array of consequences affecting the cr’s daily life it can have as more severe long-term problems it is important to not just ignore absent-mindedness in the cr treatment can often improve the cr’s situation information references

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