{"id":282,"date":"2008-06-10T22:16:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T17:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/humor\/wayward-alzheimers-patients-foiled-by-fake-bus-stop"},"modified":"2008-06-10T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T17:22:00","slug":"wayward-alzheimers-patients-foiled-by-fake-bus-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/humor\/wayward-alzheimers-patients-foiled-by-fake-bus-stop","title":{"rendered":"Wayward Alzheimer’s patients foiled by fake bus stop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Happy<\/a>Image by M@rg<\/a> via Flickr<\/span><\/span>Do you sometimes forget what you were just going to do? Alzheimer’s<\/a> patients are like this all the time. They have decent long term memory but their short term memory is pretty bad. This does lead to many problems for the people who are taking care of them.<\/p>\n

The Telegraph<\/a> has this bittersweet article<\/a> about a Alzheimer’s nursing home which had to come up with a creative way to prevent the patients from trying to take a bus home:<\/p>\n

the centre was forced to rely on police to retrieve patients who wanted to return to their homes and families but had forgotten that in many cases neither existed any longer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When asked to suggest a solution to this problem, I’m sure most people will think of compound walls and locked gates. They have come up with a much sweeter solution. Just outside the home, they created a fake bus stop. It looks like a regular bus stop with all the appropriate signs. With the small difference that no bus actually comes there.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt sounds funny,\u201d said Old Lions Chairman Franz-Josef Goebel, \u201cbut it helps. Our members are 84 years-old on average. Their short-term memory<\/a> hardly works at all, but the long-term memory is still active. They know the green and yellow bus sign and remember that waiting there means they will go home.\u201d The result is that errant patients now wait for their trip home at the bus stop, before quickly forgetting why they were there in the first place.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will approach them and say that the bus is coming later today and invite them in to the home for a coffee,\u201d said Mr Neureither. \u201cFive minutes later they have completely forgotten they wanted to leave.\u201d The idea has proved so successful that it has now been adopted by several other homes across Germany.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See full article<\/a> (found here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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