‘We Are Going to Keep You Safe, Even if It Kills Your Spirit’

‘We Are Going to Keep You Safe, Even if It Kills Your Spirit’

In other care facilities and in hospitals, too, “wanderers” with dementia are believed to have spread the virus and caused outbreaks — but what are administrators to do? They can’t just lock people up. “Stay in your room,” the nursing aides tell Mr. Williams. But he...