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[quote=Anonymous]With my grandma, I just kind of gave up on the idea of truth. If she said nobody told her I was coming to visit I just said "oh, well I am glad to be here now, do you want to (watch a show, eat a snack, have me paint your nails, etc.)?" And then she would move on. No point in saying that I told her every week for a month and her aide had written it on the calendar. If she said that a nurse was trying to poison her I would say "that sounds terrible! I will look into that!") and tell her something else ("have you heard from your cousin Marcia recently? Her daughter just started college, can you believe it?"). The hardest thing was that when she was awful to people she would forget it but the rest of us remembered. I tried to strike a balance between separating it from who she really was and also remembering that she wasn't easy before dementia. To OP who wanted to know what happened after this phase, it got worse and worse for years and then she got a kidney infection and died. [/quote]

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