When Linda Spangler asked her mother, in a video chat, what she would like as gift for her 92nd birthday, the response came promptly. “I’d like a dog,” Charlene Spangler said. “Is Wolfgang dead?” Wolfgang, a family dachshund, had indeed died long ago; so had all his successors. Ms. Spangler, who lives in a dementia care facility in Oakland, Calif., has trouble recalling such history. In her facility, Charlene Spangler had eaten meals with several other residents, joined art classes and listened to visiting musicians.

Source: New York Times September 26, 2020 09:00 UTC