Manor Grove, Kirkwood

Missouri · USA · Manor

Residents with dementia complain to staff about a boy playing in their room at night. The sightings come in clusters.

Staff at this nursing home in Kirkwood, Missouri hear the same complaint from residents living with dementia and Alzheimer's: a little boy is playing in their room at night and will not let them sleep.

Local account holds that a boy was killed on the railway tracks nearby in the 1950s or 1960s.

The detail the staff themselves find hard to explain away is that the reports arrive in clusters. Several residents, on separate floors, in the same short stretch of days, and then nothing for months.

An obvious reading is that residents with cognitive decline are vulnerable to confusion at night, and that is worth stating plainly. The clustering is the part that reading does not cover, since these residents do not compare notes.

Nothing is done about it beyond listening. This is a working care home and a private one, and the entry stands as a record of what its staff are told.

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Manor Grove, Kirkwood ligger i Missouri, USA.