Reality orientation has, until more recently, experienced a decline in popularity over the years, especially in comparison to validation therapy. This is due, in large part, to a concern of people ...

(Reality Orientation and the reality of the nursing ... a dementia patient when his or her reality is not ours. Validation therapy goes into the world that the dementia patient lives in, and ...

For family and caregivers, practitioners recommend that if people undergoing reality orientation therapy express delusions, they should avoid arguing or correcting them. Instead, they suggest ...