This Facility Created A 1950s Town To Care For Alzheimer’s Patients
This Facility Created A 1950s Town To Care For Alzheimer’s Patients
A facility in California mimics early memories for “reminiscence therapy”
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It’s so sad this disease because many times these people are just fine physically except for their brains. Thank you for the video! Thanks for sharing how it takes a village!
I’m scared to get old 🥺
I wanna live there
❤️❤️❤️
Meanwhile —
I got hairy legs.. That that that that
It’s like daycare playtime for grownups. A bit of music would be good.
I hate that I can imagine companies like Meta creating towns like these for people with alzheimers in VR. Think about it. Elderlies plugged into their VR set 24/7, thinking nothing’s changed since the 50s–or whenever they grew up.
Imagine you have Alzheimer’s and they created a 2020s town for you and it is actually 2086?
Transition from 1st diagnosis to full time nursing home is emotionally draining for all involved. Anything to ease the pain of the inevitable is helpful.
As a health care worker in long term care facilities…. I FELL IN LOVE WITH THIS CONCEPT!!!!!! Love it love it love it❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Ray is such a good husband my god may the lord bless them
Life is F’n depressing.
😊
Many times I used to grab my tape recorder and record my grandma telling me her childhood in the 40s and adolescent times in the 50s y 60s and now she’s in a better place but then and often I hear those tapes and I close my eyes and imagine myself sitting on a bench and next to me is my grandma telling her stories with me
She’s so adorable
oh my god, this is incredibly genius. i’m so so happy to know this!! lovelyyy <3
There’s a fascinating book exploring this concept, called Counterclockwise by Ellen Langer
My mom has Alzheimer’s she’ll be 88 years old in October and she is one of the most violent mean person it runs mother daughter relationship it affects everybody and she’s always calling me at night and calling me the filthiest names you can think of I do not feel safe to stay there and spend the night because I’m worried she will try to stab me and can’t really put her nursing home because she would be beating on everybody so she would have to be chemically sedated help me what can I do what do I do
This is beautiful. I am a CNA and now I work as a direct support staff for adults with developmental disability. When I was working as a CNA this would have been the best place in the world for some of my patients to be. It brings tears to my eyes. Thank you to those who are there making a difference for these people.❤️
I am 55 and my house is all 50s retro including my 58 Ford I drive.
Oh my goodness. I want to work there 😭😭😭
Who is looking forward to their 80’s town???
Oooh God, this was hard to watch. 🥺😢My maternal grandmother went through this. She and my grandpa were also married 52 years. When we finally had to put her in memory care (which was hard enough to do, but we couldn’t give her the care she needed anymore), whenever we visited, which was several times a week usually, she would ask if she could go back home and that “she promised to do better this time”. Instant bawling. She thought she had done something wrong, and no matter how hard you tried not to cry, that was too much for any of us to hear. Tears always followed at the end of visits anyway. It was so heartbreaking. She didn’t understand why she was there, because obviously she didn’t know what was happening to her. When she finally passed away, it was like losing her a second time. This is such an awful, awful disease. I miss her so much. The whole family does. My heart goes out to anyone who is dealing with, or has dealt with Dementia/Alzheimer’s. 💕😔
That restaurant isn’t complete with a whites only water fountain
can we just make this for the world and not just a town. Please 🥺
She’s so precious!!!! And what a great idea.
Why cant they recreate these towns, I would spend good money to larp as an average joe of the 50s
A facility in California mimics early memories for “reminiscence therapy”
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So sad😞
Incredible!
Wow..Just wow.. God bless these caregivers and give strength to all the people who are and will be struggling with this disease.
it would be nice if they also made a 1980s/1970s town for all those who miss those times because these times are garbage
Elon musk has the solution for this disease 👌
they are right cognitive association is linked to social enforcement and building a town reflecting a life that was your world fifty years ago is a brilliant caring environment for Alzheimer’s sufferers
Yes! Enable the delusion don’t try to treat it
I’m not exactly sure how this is the 1950’s.
I wanna live there.
This is so cute I love this idea wow❤️❤️
It’s fallout all over again
Make a 1930s town that would be amazing!
Salute to them but I’m sure they overcharge and our healthcare system is overtaxed because of this ..am I saying dont make the elders happy absolutely not they deserve it ..I just hope it isn’t costing them more than they can afford
The newer generations facility will have only fans and memes lol
This is cheap Wandavison
I was born in 2003 but I wanna be put in this facility when I’m old.
Where’s the 1950’s town for young adults?
She’s such a sweet lady, so adorable 🥰
I’m so glad they have this for old folks. I hope by the time I’m 90 years old they have a facility like this that’s stuck in the 1990’s.
… the wing of submission through mercy, and say: My Lord! Have mercy on them both as they did care for me when I was little.
aw hell nah they made wandavision
Making one in Alabama or Mississippi… good luck making that historically accurate.
😉 if you know you know.
And no they shouldn’t go to that measure.
This is so amazing 👏 bravo