Dementia pathologies essentially create two victims: the person afflicted with the illness and a member of the family, a spouse or child, who, in the capacity of principle caretaker or tutor, shares the daily drama of the illness and essentially assumes the brunt of the responsibilities with dedication and courage. In its advanced stages, dementia serves as an image of psychic death, which appears as a harbinger of the physical death to come. The degenerative and irreversible character of dementia can bring about a psychic upheaval for the child whose parent is touched by such an illness, notably through a reversal of the relational functioning and a reactivation of the oedipal positions, ending in an advanced type of mourning, called “deuil blanc” in children, forcing the child into an affective distancing to reduce both suffering and anguish.