BEYOND CONFINEMENT FOR PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA
March 2, 2015
People with dementia often
become institutionalized because they wander at night, as my mother was forced
to do with my father. In a culture where
we are so predisposed to confinement, today’s NPR program “Here and Now” describes
a nighttime community initiative in the Bronx that both relieves primary caregivers
and literally brings Alzheimer’s patients to life: http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/03/02/night-program-dementia-alzheimers
. To borrow my late mother’s term for
going into a nursing home, it is a refreshing alternative to “incarceration.” I hope it catches on. Love and peace, hal
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