LOS ANGELES: Dementia care is being overwhelmed by fadism.
The creation of Back to the Future style environments replicating the 50s and 60s is harking back to a bygone era of Coney Island baby incubator watching, Jumbo the elephant and circus ‘freak’ tent shows.
Every generation has institutionalised its dilemmas. But we learned to love ‘unwed’ mothers, put the mentally ill into the community and deinstitutionalised ophans, the lame and the disabled…