If you are living with a person with dementia and particularly this dementia, you know that your person spends much of his day in an alternate reality.
There are delusions and theories that give credence to and explain them.
Hallucinations are common occupants in the world of your loved one’s with LBD.
Burt’s hallucinatory companions may sometimes annoy him but are mostly harmless.
If your person doesn’t feel that his imaginings are threatening, just play along.
When, or rather if their presence causes worry or fear, banish them.
You are encouraged by all the dementia experts to use figures of authority in doing so.
“Oh no, honey, he won’t bother us anymore. Sheriff Doland chased him out of town.”
The habit of mind that has your beloved repeating questions will crop up here, too. His anxiety over that guy may need further assuaging.
Tell him again, but don’t let on that you told him before.
this is our life 