STOCKHOLM, Oct 21 — In a Swedish nursing home, residents wait for a bus that never comes. Staff have installed a fake bus stop in a hallway to ease the minds of anxious dementia...
Staff of a Swedish nursing home have installed a fake bus stop in a hallway to ease the minds of anxious dementia patients eager to leave. — AFP picSTOCKHOLM, Oct 21 — In a Swedish nursing home, residents wait for a bus that never comes.
“It is very common... that they have this worry and want to go home” at a certain stage of Alzheimer’s and dementia, she told AFP.The bus stop was installed four years ago and has helped patients on numerous occasions. At the Swedish nursing home 35 kilometres south-west of Stockholm, where 17 people currently live, the measure is part of the patients’ treatment.
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