These parameters are not real. But for patients with dementia, what is it?

The RiversPring Residences nursery in the Bronx is a sunny and welcoming space equipped with a cradle, a cradle with a musical mobile, a few toys, bottles, image books for bedtime and a rack of Landy clothes.

The other morning, Wilma Rosa was there trying to calm one of her little grumpy loads. “What’s the problem, baby?” She sang, tapping the complainant’s back. “Are you okay? I want you to fall asleep for a while.

Ms. Rosa, 76, a memory of memory living in assisted life, visits the nursery daily. She had a lot of experience with babies.

She was the older girl of eight children, so she provided many family responsibilities, she told Catherine Dolan, director of enriching the life of the establishment, who asked questions to help memories to circulate. Later in life, Ms. Rosa worked in a bank and a store; The stories emerged by hacking the doll.

No real baby lives in this immersive environment, where the mixture of perfume includes a scent of talc. Just as no real sale would have taken place at the store in the corridor, another new RiversPring company.

In the middle of its wooden clothing, accessories and tchotchkes shelves, sales clerk were, like Ms. Dolan, members of the staff trained to interact effectively with residents with dementia.