It's a brilliantly creative solution to the problem, but that does not change the fact that the situation is tragic and sad.

I was responding to the suggestion that such "manipulation" was tragically sad. The fact of the illusion being necessary is tragically sad but it happens all of our lives, why stop with senility?

tragic and sad are suggestive emotions. Thus you should understand that there are people like him and I that don't find that tragic and sad at all.

It's a treatment, not a cure. It's for their good, but it's still deception. I find it creepy. A true solution would be making them not forget.

I think it's tragic because it's an indication of a) how terrible some diseases can be, and b) how powerless we are to stop them.

Yes, the best solution would be cure the disease, but the nursing home staff are not going to be the ones working on a cure. They have a different set of responsibilities than the noble goal of finding a cure for Alzheimer's.