Dutch Village Designed Just For People With Dementia
In the Netherlands a radical idea is being tested: Self-contained
'villages' where people with dementia shop, cook, and live together -
safely. In the small town of Weesp at a dementia-focused living center
called De Hogeweyk, aka Dementiavillage, the relationship between
patients and their care is serving as a model for the rest of the world.
Hogeweyk,
from a certain perspective, seems like a fortress: A solid podium of
apartments and buildings, closed to the outside world with gates and
security fences. But, inside, it is its own self-contained world:
Restaurants, cafes, a supermarket, gardens, a pedestrian boulevard, and
more.
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