MILWAUKEE: A jury has found 78-year-old Henry Rayhons not guilty of charges that he sexually abused his wife by having sex with her in a skilled nursing home after the staff told him her Alzheimer’s rendered her cognitively unable to give consent.
But the case against Rayhons was less about him and more about what rights dementia patients have when it comes to intimacy. The thing about Alzheimer’s is that its sufferers often have fleeting moments of lucidity. “This case has opened the door to a conversation people really don’t want to have about sexuality, old age and dementia,” said one expert…