I come down firmly on the side of allowing people with late stage dementia to think things that may be untrue but nonetheless make them happy. If a patient is

I come down firmly on the side of allowing people with late stage dementia to think things that may be untrue but nonetheless make them happy. If a patient is incapable of remembering that their beloved spouse is dead, it's simply unkind to insist on making them relive the death trauma over and over again when doing so has no effect on what they can remember ten minutes from now.