The "dementia village" that's redefining elder care

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"What we saw every day was that the people that lived in our nursing home were confused about their environment, because what they saw was a hospital-like environment, with doctors and nurses and paramedics in uniform, and they lived on a ward. And they didn't understand why they lived there. And they looked for the place to get away. They looked and hoped to find the door to go home again. And we said what we are doing in this situation is offering these people that already have a confused brain some more confusion. We were adding confusion to confusion. And that was not what these people needed."

"These people wanted to have a life, and the help, our help, to deal with that dementia. These people wanted to live in a normal house, not in a ward. They wanted to have a normal household, where they would smell their dinner on the stove in the kitchen. Or be free to go to the kitchen and grab something to eat or drink. That's what these people needed. And that's what we should organize for them."

Watch Yvonne van Amerongen's talk about a modern care home for patients with dementia.