ABSTRACT
Working with patients with Alzheimer’s disease can be a pleasure because in many patients a certain engaged charm continues until late in the disease, as the interaction recorded by Hamilton suggests.1 The characteristic Alice-Through-the-Looking-Glass interaction with these patients can be fascinating for the researcher. For family members, by contrast, the apparent dissolution of the person they knew before the disease, and their inability to communicate with the family member, can be devastating (Mace & Robins, 1981).
