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Depression is one of the most common psychological symptoms that often occurs with dementia. It can be a risk factor for dementia to develop, or it can also appear after dementia causes losses to a patient’s abilities. Depression has been shown to hinder the functional status of a patient with dementia even further. Using medication to treat depression in patients with dementia holds the risk of side effects. Instead, psychosocial treatments should be considered essential in the treatment of depression in dementia patients. The purpose of this review is to examine psychosocial treatments used for treating depression in patients with dementia. Of these treatments, psychotherapy, music therapy and reminiscence therapy are considered further. The evidence for psychotherapy, music therapy and reminiscence therapy is partly conflicting, but overall quite promising. In the future, more randomized controlled trials should be carried out, but there is also a need for qualitative studies to clarify which mechanisms enable treatments to affect depression in dementia patients.