I live next to one in Texas. On numerous occasions a very exasperated young lady has pounded on my door asking if I'd seen an old man wandering about.

This is precisely how my grandfather died. The VA knew he had severe dementia but weren't paying attention and he wandered away and ended up passing away. My family sued the VA, not for money, but for them to tighten up their rules about dealing with veterans with dementia. We won, although I've never followed up to see if there was any significant impact from the rule changes.

Ah, the 'leave the elders on the ice floe' method of senior care.

Honest question, why are people so obsessed with living? I’d want to be euthanized at the first sign of dementia. Just give me like a week to get my affairs in order. It’s bizarre that people would rather exist as mindless husks than die peacefully at a time of their choosing.

Maybe it’s fear. Most humans live and think like animals whose impulse to survive overrides rationality. Or is there another explanation?

I genuinely want to understand.

What is this news format with the headline as an image macro in meme format. That's genius.

Lmao, why am I not surprised that when I see someplace I grew up around in the news, it's only for bad reasons? Still sad tho, tbh

Why don’t they have cameras on every door that sends an alert and a video of who is going in and out? This seems like a solved problem. They can even do facial recognition on some of them.