The use of "therapuetic fibs" and dementia

Alzheimer's Weekly
Secrets from a Caregiver's Support Group

ENCINITAS, CALIFORNIA --

Sometimes there is great comfort in sharing a simple, little story. Especially when both the teller and the listener are caring for a parent with Alzheimer's disease.

"Before my mom had a stroke, she did a lot of hallucinating," Carlsbad resident Lynne Smith, 55, told a support group for adult children of an Alzheimer's patients at the Glenner Center in Encinitas last week. "She'd call me at 6 in the morning to tell me that her mom and sister had come by for a visit, but that they had left when she had gone to the bathroom."

But what really worried her mother, Smith said......read the whole post