VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — May Wells’ heart sank as she watched her husband leave their Williamsburg home in the back of a police car. Her husband, Ray, suffered from early onset Alzheimer’s disease, and his condition had deteriorated to the point that Wells called for help.
“He was having these delusions that there were people in the house who were going to kill us,” she said.
The police took Ray to the emergency room, which offered to refer him to a state-run psychiatric hospital in western Virginia. Wells said she had the resources to send Ray to a private memory care home — otherwise, he likely would have ended up in the state’s care.
