An article on a new direction in dementia care appeared in the May 30, 2013, issue of The New Yorker.
It describes the way an Arizona nursing home, Beatitudes, offers dementia patients a unique program which promotes a less rigid schedule than the usual medical model of care. “Often, the advanced-dementia unit, with its pervasive quiet and slow-moving kindly staff, seemed like an ante-room to another realm, filled with people in a state of suspended anticipation.”