Keep Alzheimer’s patients from viewing the news on TV, mentions Jacqueline Marcell, author of Elder Rage.  She relates how the news can confuse and alarm those with failing menories or lack of understanding of place and time. 
 In her post, Don’t Let Loved Ones with Dementia Watch the News!, Ms. Marcell gives the example of how watching the news about southern California’s fires affected her.  Then she mentions when seeing the events of 9/11 on television saddened her, but confused and alarmed her mother.
Movies and television shows will do the same…when what they see gets “twisted into their reality.”
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