GABRIELLE SELZ
Published: August 14, 2008
FIVE years ago I promised my mother that I would never place her in a nursing home. She was 78 and showed no symptoms of Azheimer's or another dementia at the time. At her younger brother’s urging, she had bought a long-term health care policy, and the possibility of not being able to live on her own had reared its head. Back then, my mother lived next door to me in Southampton. She was in good health, a vibrant dresser who liked to walk the half-mile into town when the weather was good.
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hello - we just work on artistic installations for a new dementia institution in vienna.
how much relief or improvement to the situation of the singular we can give to the patient is unknown
nevertheless it seems alot that this illness is growing fast as a new social symptom..
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