I'm a med student. I remember this topic came up in our exam on ethics and philosophy.
Fake Bus Stops For Alzheimer’s patients in Germany (2011)
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#52People knowing about fake stuff NOW, who will have Alzheimer in 40 Years, will NOT forget that there are fake bus-stops and stuff in the backyard. So they will know that nursing homes have fake stuff and they will complain about it. My opinion about "it's sad": Alzheimer is not very sad for the pacients, but for their families. The patients, like my grandfather and grandmother, don't really know they _have_ it, and t…
Sorry, but this a very limited description of the disease. Alzheimer's, like all dementias, is a disease of the brain, not "just memory". It comes with a whole suite of symptoms and difficulties that are experienced directly by the patient, including depression, irritability, aphasias, and often physical limitations in advanced cases.
Long-term memory loss dominates public perception of the disease, but as anyone who works with dementia can tell you, most of the time it is as distressing for the patient as it is for the family.
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#53Meanwhile, the visiting tourist is wondering why no bus has come in hours... lol
Good point - this wouldn't such be a great solution if it caused problems for other people. That has been accounted for, though: the sign actually says "Sonderfahrten" (special trips) in the area where the bus number(s) would be, to indicate that there is no regular scheduled service.
Well, a tourist would probably not know German(as was my case when I visited Austria a couple of weeks ago)
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#54They also have these in the US. My grandfather was in a home that had a whole 1940s small town-type setting in the backyard area complete with bus stop, sidewalk, and a little bit of fake street.
That sounds beautiful. Can you give us a link with more info?
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good point - this wouldn't such be a great solution if it caused problems for other people. That has been accounted for, though: the sign actually says "Sonderfahrten" (special trips) in the area where the bus number(s) would be, to indicate that there is no regular scheduled service.
Well, a tourist would probably not know German(as was my case when I visited Austria a couple of weeks ago)
Sure, but one would hope that they -would- know how to look to see whether the number for the bus they wanted was present.
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#56I immediately thought of the end of the movie 'Ghost World' for some reason.
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#58I'm a med student. I remember this topic came up in our exam on ethics and philosophy.
Please elaborate on a few of these aspects (again!). Thanks if you do.
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#60I guess this is what goes as a "psychological hack".
Definitely interesting to see how you can play the same tricks on people as you can on machines as long as you know enough about how they work internally.
Interesting and scary I guess. We all know how big corp is going to be spending billions on this to manipulate us all.