by Jerrold Bartholomew
September 16, 2008
Mary Ellen Geist, formerly a high-powered New York radio journalist, has written about her experiences as a caregiver for her father. Her book, Measure of the Heart, tells her story of returning home to Michigan to care for her father suffering from Alzheimer’s. MSNBC recently interviewed Mary (video here) and provided a number of excerpts [...]
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by Jerrold Bartholomew
June 12, 2008
How lax is security at Alzheimer’s facilities in Germany? This story apparently answers that question and explains that fake bus stops are used to gather in patients who wander away:
“It sounds funny but it helps,” said Franz-Josef Goebel, the chairman of the “Old Lions” association.
The result is that errant patients now wait [...]
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