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Dementia: hallucinations and delusions
Dementia can cause people to sense or believe things that aren’t real, including hallucinations, delusions or misidentification.
Although they’re not real, they can feel real and sometimes very scary to the person experiencing them. It can be upsetting if someone close to you with dementia experiences hallucinations, delusions or misidentification. But there are things you can do.
- Organisation:
- Dementia Australia
- Topic:
- Dementia
- Target audience:
- General, Parents or carers
- Service area:
- National
- Published:
- August 2024
- Last reviewed:
- September 2025
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