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Alzheimer's
Society isn't ready yet for people living with severe dementia because they do not understand them. We have sort of a self-reinforcing system where we segregate folks with dementia and then by segregating them we reinforce that stigma. It is completely possible to deliver care at home for people. We just need to put the money in. States are not required to pay for at-home care for anybody. If you're somewhere and a baby starts crying, nobody's like, well, you need to go home. The New Yorker just published an investigative report about the ways in which the at-home hospice industry has become a $22 billion industry rife with exploitation. But done well