Alzheimer's and dementia patients incur an end-of-life experience that
differs markedly from their care-givers. They traverse in two different
worlds which might be parallel, but often don't allow them to connect as
they once did. While set schedules and antipsychotic drugs are
prescribed my many physicians, the idea of adding fun and animals to
one's regimen is relatively new.
In a recent AARP report, one unconventional approach is seeing
significant results with some late-stage Alzheimer's patient. 95-year
old Laura Damuck who lives at the Life Care Center of Nashoba Valley in
Littleton, Massachusetts has come to know
the comfort of llama.
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