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"An intangible goal, which requires building human relationships, is to meet elders' emotional, cognitive, and even spiritual needs. To that end, Paul Raia in 1989 developed "habilitation therapy"-a communication technique based on the neuropathology of Alzheimer's. "The ability to feel, perceive, respond to, and evoke emotion is there in the brain until very near the end," he explains. The therapy aims at creating positive emotion and sustaining it "in whoever people become as they move through the stages of the disease." If a patient wants to visit her deceased mother, the caregiver does not "reorient reality" by asserting the truth but responds to the underlying feeling of sadness and loss by saying: "I hear your mother was a wonderful lady, let's talk about her," and taking out a photo of, say, a day at the beach mother and child shared, and talking about it...."