<p>My mother-in-law’s nursing home provides more than enough drugs, thank you, and more than enough rock and roll (more accurately, hip-hop). I WISH it facilitated sex! I wish my mother-in-law cared enough to want sex. But . . . she doesn’t, and even if she does, the drugs take care of THAT.</p>
<p>There was some media attention on the dementia aspects of this a few years ago when it was reported that Sandra Day O’Connor’s husband, John, who had Alzheimer’s and lived at an Alzheimer’s facility, was carrying on a public love affair with another patient. His family was supportive – he didn’t know who they were, exactly, any more, although he appreciated their visits, and the romance was clearly bringing energy and passion into his life that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.</p>