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When confusion becomes a gift to the confused

My father has Alzheimer's and sometimes he thinks I'm my mother and I don't have the heart to correct him.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Dementia creates moments where maintaining illusion becomes an act of compassion.

Ideas that help explain it
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