The training involves sitting at a computer, strapping on a headset and, for a time, experiencing the thoughts and emotions of three fictitious people with Alzheimer's disease, bad vision and hearing, and lung cancer. URBANA — Meet Beatriz, an older woman full of questions about what's going on around her as Alzheimer's disease steadily deteriorates her brain. Meet Alfred, a 74-year-old man struggling to get along with age-related hearing loss and narrowing vision. Meet Clay, a 66-year-old man who learns his throat and lung cancer is terminal and it's time for him to enter hospice care. read more

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