Fake bus stop at Swedish care home calms dementia patients

At a nursing home in Sweden, a fake bus stop has been installed in a hallway to ease the minds of anxious dementia patients eager to leave.
The manager of the retirement home said "It is quite common especially with Alzheimer's and a dementia diagnosis who want to go home". In a brightly lit corridor, a bench is pushed up against the wall under a map of the city and an authentic-looking bus stop sign with the city's municipal transport logo.
This automatically becomes a good tool to be able to divert and place to sit down and talk about trips, she added. Fake bus stops were constructed outside of some retirement homes in Germany in 2008 to give wandering patients a place to sit and it is also part of the patients' treatment.