Dr. Boustani, who is also associate director of the Healthy Aging Brain Center, says he is working with health-care systems in other states to duplicate the program, with an aim to affordably scale up the model to a national level.
There's a classic neon McDonald's sign, a scale model of an old Texaco service station where kids can play at fixing a car and a mock-up of an early Holiday Inn, complete with cheesy laminated coffee tables.