{"id":82,"date":"2010-05-19T19:08:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T23:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ombs\/?p=82"},"modified":"2010-05-19T19:08:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T23:08:28","slug":"alzheimers-therapy-a-bus-stop-to-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/2010\/05\/19\/alzheimers-therapy-a-bus-stop-to-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer&#039;s Therapy: A Bus Stop to Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br \/>\n<a class=\"addthis_button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bb6bcc8320e5dd9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/v2\/lg-share-en.gif\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a><script src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bb6bcc8320e5dd9\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Button END --><\/p>\n<p>Research has yet to definitively establish the cause (or, more likely, causes) of Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease, an ailment plaguing roughly 5.3 million people in America alone. \u00a0In its later stages, Alzheimer&#8217;s does not only disturb patients&#8217; lives, but also weighs heavily on caregivers. \u00a0Whether a family member; friend; or often, retirement home employee; a caregiver will struggle between keeping a loved one or patient mentally in the present or allowing him to sink back into the past.<\/p>\n<p>WNYC, a New York public radio station, hosts a show called RadioLab (also available via free podcast, to which I highly recommend subscribing). \u00a0In this particular &#8220;short&#8221; from RadioLab, the hosts speaks with the director of Benrath Senior Center in D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany; the home has taken a unique and controversial approach to dealing with residents&#8217; dementia. \u00a0You can listen to the clip here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wnyc.org\/radiolab\/2010\/03\/23\/the-bus-stop\/\">RadioLab- The Bus Stop<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/files\/2010\/04\/Bus-stop-4.jpg\" alt=\"Bus-stop-4\" width=\"332\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/files\/2010\/04\/Bus-stop-4.jpg 332w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/files\/2010\/04\/Bus-stop-4-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The conversation raises many questions: \u00a0Is it fair to lie to the residents? \u00a0Even if it removes the anxiety and stress of feeling trapped? \u00a0Should we allow patients to live in their personal reality which often bears little resemblance to actual reality? \u00a0Could enabling disorientation enhance patient confusion? \u00a0Do we judge success by patients&#8217; happiness or by their grasp on reality? \u00a0Is this a realistic method to adopt in other senior care facilities?<\/p>\n<p>Is forgetting, as Lulu Miller says, &#8220;both the problem and the solution?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-Kim LeVine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research has yet to definitively establish the cause (or, more likely, causes) of Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease, an ailment plaguing roughly 5.3 million people in America alone. \u00a0In its later stages, Alzheimer&#8217;s does not only disturb patients&#8217; lives, but also weighs heavily on caregivers. \u00a0Whether a family member; friend; or often, retirement home employee; a caregiver will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}