The Bus Stop

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Natural Sciences, History, Documentary, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2010

⏱️ 13 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

There’s a common problem faced by Alzheimer's and Dementia patients all over the world: lost in their memories, they sometimes get disoriented, and wander off. In this podcast, Lulu Miller talks to a nursing home in Düsseldorf, Germany that came up with a novel solution.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:01.1	Okay.
0:02.4	All right.
0:03.6	Okay.
0:05.0	All right.
0:06.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:09.4	Radio Lab.
0:10.1	Shorts!
0:11.5	From W. N. Y.
0:13.8	C.
0:14.7	See?
0:15.0	Yes.
0:16.5	And NPR.
0:18.6	Hey, I'm Chad Abumrod.
0:20.2	I'm Robert Krollwich. This is Radio Lab, the podcast. Yep. And today we thought we would... We would tell a lie. Right. That's what we're going to... You know what? I think we should get on with it. Yes. This one comes to us from our producer, Lulu Miller. All right, so I'm going to tell you a story.
0:43.2	Takes place in Germany at an old folks' home. Hello.
0:45.0	And that's not where we are right now, but we brought two of the people who work at the home into a studio.
0:50.5	We have to close the door.
0:51.8	Yeah, it sounds like you're having a party over there.
0:54.5	So the story really belongs to this guy, Richard Newreiter.
0:58.7	He's the director of the home, which is called Benrath Senior Center.
1:03.5	But we've also brought Regina in.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from WNYC Studios, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of WNYC Studios and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.