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This depends on the stage. I, personally, feel that it's better to go into their world if it's distressing for them when you try to bring them into yours.   In the earlier stages, if you can gently bring them back to your reality, then that's fine. Or if you can distract them and just "skip it," that can work.   But in the later stages they are in their own reality, and will just fight you if you tell them they are wrong. Or they will feel diminished. Who wants to be told they are always wrong? If the person if beyond comprehending what it going on in today's world, and is more content living in the past, what does it hurt? I always felt, with my dad's dementia, that it was my job to go "where he was." He didn't have Alzheimer's, as his dementia was surgically induced, but it was a similar siutation, except it was instant.   You may find you and your mother both relax when you "bo back in time" with her. Carol