Try: A Care recipient (cr) with dementia can exhibit repetitive behavior due to his or her condition understanding the causes of repetitive behavior can help you come up with an intervention potential causes of repetitive behavior are as follows physiological or medical causes direct result of physical changes in brain reaction to sedatives tranquilizers or the interaction of medications memory loss from disease sometimes a cr with alzheimer’s disease no longer has the ability to remember that he or she is repeating behavior environmental causes separation or loss of loved one causing constant questions such as where’s my husband can’t make sense of environment other potential causes misunderstanding of what’s happening expressed in questions such as "what are you doing " inability to express a need such as hunger or having to go to the bathroom hunger may be expressed by a question such as "what’s for lunch " often the need to urinate is expressed in fiddling with clothing or increased agitation difficulty expressing emotions such as fear anger or insecurity information references mace n & rabins p 1999 the 36-hour day baltimore the johns hopkins university press robinson a spencer b & white l 1992 understanding difficult behaviors ypsilanti mi eastern michigan university

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Keywords: Dementia

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