Rebecca Mead: New Ways to Care for People with Dementia : The New Yorker

More than five million Americans
have Alzheimer???s or similar illnesses,
and that number is growing. Without any
immediate prospect of a cure, advocacy
groups have begun promoting ways to offer
people with dementia a comfortable decline
instead of imposing on them a medical model
of care. In Arizona, the Beatitudes Campus
has, over the past decade, become an incubator
for a holistic model of care. There is
currently an effort underway to implement…

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