Abstract: This paper will describe a program of intervention which is specific to Dementia. Anne-Marie Kidd, an occupational therapist in Cape Town, South Africa, has had success in implimenting the Validation Therapy Approach to the management of the elderly person with Dementia. She is ackowledged for her major contribution to this article. At the outset, the concept of the Validation Therapy Approach will be described in detail. Concepts such as creating a sense of importance in the elderly person, allowing them to feel they have something to contribute, structuring activities so that the person with Dementia feels useful and optimising assets, are key issues in this type of therapy. An example of a unit that employs this type of therapy will be described in detail and a brief discussion will bring the article to conclusion.