From New York Times, I'm Michael Borrow. This is the Daily.

Today, a Times investigation finds that nursing homes across the US are diagnosing and treating

their elderly residents for skits of frenia at alarmingly high rates, even when there's

no evidence of the illness. I spoke to my colleague, Katie Thomas, about the government

loophole that allowed it to happen. It's Tuesday, September 14.

Katie, tell me about David Blakeney. What I know about David Blakeney, how long were

you two married? 42 years. Okay. Is through his wife of 42 years, Yvonne Blakeney, and

she lives in South Carolina. And how did you guys meet? How many of them are my mom and

cows? Oh, okay. That was way back in the 70s. And she told me that they met through family.

And at the time she had four young children, one was just a baby. My younger son at the time

was my father, she was sick at that time. Wow. So that is a lot of work. And what drew

her to him was that he said he would take care of them. He would take care of her and the

children. And he did. They spent the next 40 years together. And he raised those kids

as if they were his own. And tell me just more about him. What was he like?

It was good. He worked every day. He worked on his big arm, you know, in my room.

He worked for four decades as a farmhand. And she said he was a big, muscular guy. When

he was like a young man, 250. Okay. She said, you know, he once thought nothing of just

scrambling up on the tops of those big irrigation rigs. You know, these four big, big, high

things that water the crops. And he would go up and things every day to fix something and

then write back down. He worked every day. Yeah. You know, so he worked hard for most of his

life. But when he was in his early 60s, his health just started declining. And he developed

dementia. He became increasingly confused, forgetful. He would wander out of the house. People

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