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Fake Bus Stops Used to Retrieve Alzheimer’s Patients

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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