Effective Ways to Prevent Seniors with Dementia from Wandering
When it comes right down to it, wandering is the method that aging adults with dementia use to combat some of the anxiety and stress they deal with as their brain tries to sort out reality from memories. With dementia, the brain confuses the past and the present, and often those memories are much stronger. This leads seniors to believe that people and places of the past are more real, and they feel the desire to get elsewhere quite strongly....
