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Nursing Home Recreates Communist East Germany For Dementia Patients

AlexA Residence for Senior Citizens Director Gunter Wolfram, 49, shows resident Gerda Noack, 93, an old East German variety magazine. It's one of many communist-era items available to dementia patients to touch and look at in two "remembrance rooms" at this Dresden nursing home. (NPR)
AlexA Residence for Senior Citizens Director Gunter Wolfram, 49, shows resident Gerda Noack, 93, an old East German variety magazine. It's one of many communist-era items available to dementia patients to touch and look at in two "remembrance rooms" at this Dresden nursing home. (NPR)

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