German nursing home plays a trick to keep alheimers patients from wandering off.

That is rather intelligent of those nursing home people Better to have them waiting for a non-existant bus than simply wandering off and getting lost!

I am not sure if I should laugh or cry after reading this. I am scheduled for an Alzheimer's examination in August and hope no one has to do this to me. I am also reminded of reading about a small town that didn't have the money for another police cruiser to monitor speeding from out-of-towners, so they built a mock cruiser and posted it where it could be seen by travelers. It cut down on the speeding vehicles coming into their town. Go figure!

LOL that's strange, because a danish nursing home did this about a year ago - either the writer of the articles got germany and denmark mixed up, or maybe the germans just got inspired:D

That's one way of keeping them in a good place. I worked at a nursing home once that had a code o get out. I punched out, and one of the dementia residets followed me. I had to catch her, and call the home on my cellphone to come and get her.

Such a innovative way to solve this problem! This people should be commended for doing this and lessen the problem on wandering patients.

That is such a great idea! My grandmother had Alzheimer's, and I wish the nursing home where she stayed would have done this. Talk about creative!

That sounds like a good idea to keep the patients from trying to walk home and getting confused and lost,even though it is kind of mean to set up a fake bus stop to get the patients to stand there like they are waiting for a bus,because it is deceiving them,and you think the staff at the nursing home would want to be honest with their patients.

I don't know what to think about this. On one hand it is important to prevent people from wandering off. I have worked at a nursing home myself, and I know from experience that many Alzheimer patients put themselves at risk by wandering off. On the other hand I don't think that a replica of a busstop is the right solution. Many people would say that the end justifies the means, but I don't like the idea of fooling the patients into thinking that the busstop is real. I think it is degrading.

My grandmother is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and I am happy that they don't use this trick at her nursing home. They do prevent the patients from wandering off but they don't play tricks on them.