Previously, dementia patients were confronted with facts. Today we favor deception over dignity.

The Morning News https://ift.tt/2NSA8rQ

When a person asks to go home, an aide takes them to the bus stop, where they sit and wait for a bus that never comes. At some point, when they are tired, and have forgotten what they are doing there, they are persuaded to go back.

↩︎ The New Yorker

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