Neither reality orientation nor remotivation techniques helped these very old disoriented residents face present reality. Nor could they relate to the objects that the therapist used to stimulate awareness of present time in a remotivation group.

“Yes, and her petticoat; I hope you saw her petticoat, six inches deep in mud, I am absolutely certain; and the gown which had been let down to hide it not doing its office.” “Your picture may be very exact, Louisa,” said Bingley; “but this was all lost upon me. I thought Miss Elizabeth Bennet looked remarkably well when she came into the room this morning. Her dirty petticoat quite escaped my notice.”

Her space: A cozy-yet-stylish woman cave on the main floor of their 1996 home. Deb had the room designed last year as a solution to her and her husband's TV incompatibility.

The city has at times fogged the outside-ocala area, but the county claims its hands are too tied, legally and financially, for it to render much aid.