Dave - My mother's cycle of repetition is on average 3 - 10 minutes.
Her ability to listen and understand is noticably diminishing.
But she does still try to be agreeable, rather than absolutely refuse to listen.
She does accept that she has problems coping, even when she feels there is nothing wrong and we are all getting at her,
and making her upset.

It is severely frustrating and a trial of my strength and patience.
An afternoon with my mother is exhausing and does my head in.
.. and she is one of the two people I most love in this world.

Let's just say it's good training for dealing with mudcat and it's aging members.....

All communication with my mother is verbal, it would be interesting to see how her condition would manifest itself
if she had enthusiastic access to a keyboard and internet forums....???

At least she understands reality enough to still loathe tories...

So, while I'm prepared to continue, juries out on how much Keith is capable of co-operating for our greater good.
Can we see if our little experiment in tolerance in this one thread has any meaningful effect and value...???