Example: Replace Medicine Cabinet With The Memory Box Your Alzheimer's Store Certified Contractor will inspect your home for improvements like this.  The stranger in the mirror is viewed as either a friend or someone hostile... In observing people with dementia, they carry on conversations with their reflections. They can get quite angry with or afraid of their reflections. At an adult daycare center, a new male client was being taken to the men's room. When he saw his reflection in the mirror, he shouted, "That guy has my sweater!" and began to try to fight with his reflection. Staff members had to drag him away. Why is this happening? Technically, it is called retrogenesis. It s possible for persons with dementia to recognize pieces of their clothing and not recognize their faces. Your certified contractor will identify unsafe and unfit areas of the patient's living environment and then produce and install solutions.  In this case the contractor would recommend replacing the medicine cabinet with a memory box with no glass but rather a plexi-glass front with a lock and shelving.