Guess what I learned? I learned that I was no longer exasperated, bent out of shape, or stressed out. Quite the opposite in fact. I felt good about myself. I felt good, not bad….. By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer’s Reading Room One thing that drives Alzheimer’s caregivers crazy is repetitive questions and repetitive behavior. I know this from the number of emails I receive on this issue, and the number of comments we get on the issue. It is clear to me that a large fraction of patients with Alzheimer’s disease ask the same things over and over. I understand how disconcerting this can be — I was there once upon a time. It took me a long time to understand this repetitive behavior and adjust to it. I am looking at my Leonardo da Vinci pad and some of my bunkhouse notes. One question I asked myself, why am I allowing this behavior to drive me nuts? I know its going to continue to happen everyday until I figure out how to do something about it. Why can’t I accept that this is part of the reality of living with someone who has Alzheimer’s disease? Why can’t I accept this as a “normal” part of everyday living with Alzheimer’s? Seems simple and straightforward doesn’t it? These kinds of situations and experiences helped me to envision Alzheimer’s World, and then to start formalization my construct of Alzheimer’s World. For me, there are two communication worlds: real world and Alzheimer’s World. In real world, I communicate much in the same way that I always have. I decided that I was not going to try and change real world.

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