{"id":340,"date":"2008-06-05T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2008\/06\/05\/creative-ways-to-take-care-of-people\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:37","slug":"creative-ways-to-take-care-of-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2008\/06\/05\/creative-ways-to-take-care-of-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative ways to take care of people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any of us that have friends or loved ones battling with memory issues (and it seems like all of us are) will appreciate this story.<\/p>\n<p>Rules are one thing &#8211; but all too often they&#8217;re used as a crutch to get around having to come up with meaningful and workable solutions to problems with caring for people. The rules often overlook the fact that people are &#8220;people&#8221; &#8211; not just items to be catalogued and inventoried.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the story, which I found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/06\/05\/fake-bus-stop-keeps.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style: italic;\"><p>A  nursing home in Germany built an exact replica of a bus stop in front of the  facility. The only difference is that buses never stop there.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt sounds funny,\u201d said Old Lions Chairman Franz-Josef Goebel, \u201cbut  it helps. Our members are 84 years-old on average. Their short-term memory  hardly works at all, but the long-term memory is still active. They know the  green and yellow bus sign and remember that waiting there means they will go  home.\u201d The result is that errant patients now wait for their trip home at the  bus stop, before quickly forgetting why they were there in the first place.  \u201cWe will approach them and say that the bus is coming later today and invite  them in to the home for a coffee,\u201d said Mr Neureither. \u201cFive minutes later they  have completely forgotten they wanted to leave.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/2069467\/Wayward-Alzheimer%27s-patients-foiled-by-fake-bus-stop.html\">Link<\/a>  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any of us that have friends or loved ones battling with memory issues (and it seems like all of us are) will appreciate this story. Rules are one thing &#8211; but all too often they&#8217;re used as a crutch to get around having to come up with meaningful and workable solutions to problems with caring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-5u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}