Monday 1 October 2012

Overnight dementia 'camp' allows caregivers rest

In this Sept. 20, 2012 photo, Robert Garcia holds his daughter Amara Garcia, 3, in their apartment in the Bronx borough of New York, as she displays a photograph of her grandfather Felix Garcia and his late wife. Felix Garcia is enrolled in an overnight program for dementia victims with sleep problems at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, also in the Bronx. (AP Photo/Jim Fitzgerald) Just after 10 p.m., when most people their age are going to sleep, a group of elderly folks suffering from dementia are just getting started, dancing and shaking tambourines and maracas in a raucous version of "La Bamba."




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