Meds are often the go-to for dementia patients. Is there a better way?

A healthcare worker fondly listening to an elderly patient's stories outdoors.

After Bobby Tweed moved into a Tennessee nursing home, the once-spirited 78-year-old with dementia grew listless and withdrawn. Tweed, a gentle man who his daughter, Robin Tweed Keller, says “never hit anybody in his whole life,” was suddenly labeled “agitated” after a scuffle with another resident.

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