Love that kind of real life/mind hacks !
Fake Bus Stops For Alzheimer’s patients in Germany (2011)
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#22OT, but that is one hell of a hierarchical URL
http://www.theiacp.org/tabid/1007/Default.aspx?id=1665 appears to point to the same page, so the long URL might just be SEO.
Re: Fake Bus Stops For Alzheimer’s patients in Germany (2011)
#23Germany and Europe
Hmm...
Re: Fake Bus Stops For Alzheimer’s patients in Germany (2011)
#24This reminds me of the old guy in Ghost World who waits for the bus that doesn't run anymore, until it picks him up at the end of the film.
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#26A mildly interesting old article that has nothing to do with anything. Am I on Reddit? Edit: Yep, posted earlier today: http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/yp94q/til_tha...
It's a hack in the true sense of the word; I found it entirely appropriate.
Re: Fake Bus Stops For Alzheimer’s patients in Germany (2011)
#27I can't tell whether I find this crushingly sad or not. On the one hand, I cried like a baby at the end of the Notebook. On the other hand, this basically reminds me of what it's like dealing with my 2 year old daughter.
Is it necessarily a tragedy that someone's mind dies before their body does? It's undoubtedly painful for those waching - but for what reason?
I guess "potential" isn't tragic (ie. my daughter will eventually become a completely coherent adult) where as this kind of mental decline is like some sort of extreme nostalgia that basically picks out every sense of loss we've ever felt and makes it resonate like a tuning fork.
Re: Fake Bus Stops For Alzheimer’s patients in Germany (2011)
#28OT, but that is one hell of a hierarchical URL
It appears that most of the directories that appear between the domain name and the final file name are optional. The following URL points to the same page:
http://www.theiacp.org/This/Is/Something/That/Does/Not/Exist...
Re: Fake Bus Stops For Alzheimer’s patients in Germany (2011)
#29I read the title as fake-bus stops...
Re: Fake Bus Stops For Alzheimer’s patients in Germany (2011)
#30In a way I find this kind of manipulation tragically sad, but in reality the true tragedy is the cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's. I'm glad nursing homes have figured out a way to mitigate some of the problems until scientists can cure or prevent Alzheimer's for good.
You know what? They're not causing harm and they're helping these patients be in a safe environment so that they do not hurt themselves or others. I don't find this sad at all, I find it innovating. This is actually a great 'hack' that seems to work and only has positive results.
I couldn't agree more, my grandad has Alzheimer's and he often forgets that my grandma is dead and says he wants to see her, we have given up trying to explain to him what's happened as it always causes heart ache for everyone so now people lie to him, which I hate to do.
I wish that we had thought of something this simple to distract him, some people may say it's unfair, but isn't 5 minutes of trickery worth sparing them the heart ache that their life has vanished behind them and they have the decrepit body of an 80 or 90 year old person?