Damn bus is running late again...

In what would seam mean is actually quite ingenious. A German nursing home as a quick and easy solution to keep ahlzimers patients from running off. Lie to them. Well, kinda...

The idea was first tried at Benrath Senior Centre in Düsseldorf, which pitched an exact replica of a standard stop outside, with one small difference: buses do not use it. The centre had been forced to rely on police to retrieve patients who wanted to return to their often non-existent homes and families. Then Benrath teamed up with a local care association called the "Old Lions". They went to the Rheinbahn transport network which supplied the bus stop. "It sounds funny but it helps," said Franz-Josef Goebel, the chairman of the "Old Lions" association. "Our members are 84 years old on average. Their short-term memory hardly works, but the long-term memory is still active. "They know the green and yellow bus sign and remember that waiting there means they will go home."