This wife learns to focus on her husband’s strengths.

Wife convinces her husband, who has dementia, that he needs his bath today

This paper was presented at the World Congress of Gerontology in Vancouver, BC, Canada in July, 2001. When this paper was written, Gwendolyn was a Graduate student at the University of Victoria, Centre on Aging, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. This manuscript is the result of a Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for an Interdisciplinary M.A. in the departments of Psychology, Sociology and Nursing.