As the population ages and more and more elderly people with dementia require long-term care, the burden on caregivers is overwhelming, especially in developing countries where there is a shortage of specialized institutions to care for these patients. As Dr. Sue Levkoff, President of Alzheimer’s International, said at the 2006 International Alzheimer’s Day Conference, “Caregivers need specialized training to help them cope with the symptoms of abnormal behavior and to care for them in their daily lives; they need to acquire the skills and knowledge to communicate with the patient; and they need to help them understand that the many symptoms of the patient are a manifestation of the disease and not the patient’s fault. symptoms are a manifestation of the disease and not the patient’s fault.” The current model of non-pharmacological treatment for dementia is the Best Friend Model, which is based on the principle that the patient’s rights should be fully valued and a new model of positive interaction should be developed with the patient. The Best Friend Model was first published in 1997 and was so well received and accepted that it has become a fundamental principle in the long-term care of AD patients worldwide. In Maine and Oregon the approach was adopted as the state model and many supportive communities, day care centers and associations utilize this principle in their daily work. This model was presented to the 24 families of dementia patients invited to our Neurology Department on June 22, 2010 at the second Family Club for Dementia Patients event. The patients’ families listened to the presentation and discussed in groups. The family representatives of each group made speeches, and one old man was in tears when he spoke, saying that he sometimes used to lose his temper with his partner because it was very hard to take care of her, and now he knows after listening to the class that he has to be a good friend to his patients and not to argue with them on everything. In her speech, Ms. An, who has an elderly mother with dementia at home, shared her experience of caring for her partner, saying that if she arranges various activities suitable for the elderly with loving care and creativity, the patient will have less abnormal behavior and her intelligence will be better maintained, and thus the burden of the caregiver will be lessened. Their speeches received a round of applause from the audience. In the subsequent heartwarming moment session, Dr. Zhou asked each family to write their greeting cards in their hands and exchange them with other patient families. Everyone participated actively and some patient families even left their phone numbers to each other and became friends. The scene was very warm and touching. Finally, Dr. Zhou arranged a “dance session”, in which the dementia patients and their partners danced to soft dance music. She volunteered to sing us a song, “Evening Outside Moscow”, which drew a lot of applause and we ended the event with a lot of singing and dancing. Dr. Zhou Jiong, as the organizer of the Dementia Patients’ Club, said after the event that these patients’ families need a lot of support, and he was very happy to be able to serve these patients’ friends. In the future, I would like to hold more of these activities to introduce the good friend model to families with dementia patients, so that more caregivers can become “good friends” of the patients, and can love themselves and become good friends at the same time, and we doctors should become their “good friends” not only as medical workers. We doctors should be their “good friends”, not just medical workers.