In a Swedish nursing home, residents wait for a bus that never comes.
Published on: Sunday, October 22, 2023Staff 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 picStaff have installed a fake bus stop in a hallway to ease the minds of anxious dementia patients eager to leave.
“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. “We used to sit on the bench with her and just wait. And then we started to talk... and then she was calmer happier. And we could then go eat or watch TV,” she said.Fake bus stops were erected in parks outside some retirement homes in Germany in 2008 to give wandering patients a place where they would instinctively go to sit.
The bench is most sought-after at the end of the day, when the patients are more likely to feel restless.
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