MC69TA
07-26-2005, 04:59 PM
one of his patients with advanced dementia voted in the 2000 presidential election. The man thought it was 1942 and Franklin D. Roosevelt was president. The patient's wife revealed that she had escorted her husband into the booth.
"I said 'Did he pick?' and she said 'No, I picked for him,' " Swerdloff said. "I felt bad. She essentially voted twice"
Although there are no national statistics, two studies in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island found that patients at dementia clinics turned out in higher numbers than the general population.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18916-2004Sep13.html
Concern is growing that people with dementia may be targets for partisan exploitation in nursing homes and other facilities.
WHAT !! Dam vile closet Republicans
Rafferty said that most of the residents were of sound mind -- and that most were Democrats. He charged the Bush administration with suppressing Democratic turnout
Never mind
"I said 'Did he pick?' and she said 'No, I picked for him,' " Swerdloff said. "I felt bad. She essentially voted twice"
Although there are no national statistics, two studies in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island found that patients at dementia clinics turned out in higher numbers than the general population.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18916-2004Sep13.html
Concern is growing that people with dementia may be targets for partisan exploitation in nursing homes and other facilities.
WHAT !! Dam vile closet Republicans
Rafferty said that most of the residents were of sound mind -- and that most were Democrats. He charged the Bush administration with suppressing Democratic turnout
Never mind