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That reminds me, read a story once about a senior home that put in a fake bus stop at the facility for the dementia patients who wanted to go home. They could go sit at the bus stop and wait for their bus while being under surveillance.

We had lovely elderly widow living opposite us for over 20 years. 3/4 bed semi, nice garden. London house prices and UK inheritance tax prompted her only son the suggest she sign it over to him, to try and avoid the latter. He promptly sold it and put her in a tiny, tiny OAP bedsit down the road. She used to come by regularly and weep outside. Flummoxed is possibly not the word I am looking for. She was not remotely senile.

Fraufruit wrote: ↑Thu May 01, 2025 10:11 am That reminds me, read a story once about a senior home that put in a fake bus stop at the facility for the dementia patients who wanted to go home. They could go sit at the bus stop and wait for their bus while being under surveillance.

This leads me to recomment a clay animation short film called Harvie Krumpet, it is just lovely. Well spend 23 minutes, I am confident you will enjoy.

A fake bus stop at a senior citizen home is shown and explained at 16:51. Resists the urge to jump to 16:51, this movie is worth watching completely.

On a more serious note, there is a wiki article about those fake bus stops in Germany on the German wikipedia, but it is not available in English. The strange thing is that this article claims those fake bus stops to be a German invention from 2006, but the aforementioned Australian short film from 2003 already mentioned them a few years before.