The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

by Nancy L. Mace

Changing the environment to protect the person is an important part of coping with wandering. One family found that the person who had dementia would not go outside if he did not have his shoes on. Taking away his shoes and giving him slippers kept him inside.