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When to honor truth versus comfort in dementia care

My mother has dementia and keeps asking for her own mother who died twenty years ago and I do not know whether to keep correcting her or just go along with it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Cognitive decline forces caregivers to choose between factual accuracy and emotional kindness, with no clear moral guidance for either choice.

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