Village for dementia
Posted by:
Panchito
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Date: November 18, 2014 05:38PM [www.theatlantic.com]
Re: Village for dementia
Posted by:
SueZ
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Date: November 18, 2014 08:37PM What is described is more analogous to an assisted living facility than a nursing home. In nursing homes most of the residents are wheelchair bound and don't know how to even get back to their own rooms from the various activity rooms - and most of them are incontinent.
An open air 'Truman show' town atmosphere would be more frightening and more dangerous for all but beginning stage real dementia patients than nursing homes are. These people are all in their own world anyway so don't need a home town staging as they create their own delusional story of where they are and who is who. In the "grande" dining room at the table in the nursing home my mother is in now only one person knows she is in a nursing home. My mother thinks she is dining in a cruise ship dining hall, another woman thinks she is in her University dining room, etc. They think their rooms are in a different building without them having to be that way anyway. Everybody there also has an equally fabricated romanticized story of their life, etc. They are very creative at inventing ways to have their situations make sense to them and are happy that way as long as everyone goes along with their sagas - which is way easier and cheaper to do than building a town for them. This article is a fantasy story for people who have no experience about things such as nursing home bound dementia patients yet. Those are the only people who will think it's a good idea or even real. Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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