This is on point. I'm Megna Chacrabardi. More than 5 million Americans age 65 and older

have some form of dementia, that's according to the CDC, and the number is expected to

triple by 2060. A cure is nowhere in sight yet, and in the meantime the need for dementia

care is only getting greater. So is it time to shift the focus from cure to care? Should

vastly more money be invested in how to increase the health, well-being, and quality of life

for the 14 million Americans who are expected to get this disease in the next 35 years?

And can we do it on a large scale? Put another way. Can we create a system where people

don't just live with dementia, but live well? Well, those are the questions that inspired

care workers in the Netherlands to create the Hogivake dementia village right outside of Amsterdam.

It opened in 2009, and the village is a residential nursing community specifically for people with

severe dementia. Residents get the health care and supervision they need, while also living

freely in an entire community designed physically and socially for them. It's a revolutionary

idea that has since caught on. There are similar models today in France, Norway, the UK, Australia,

and Canada. But can this whole dementia village model work here in the United States? And if so, how?

Well, Iris Van Sloaton is an advisor at B Advice, an advisory board of the Vivian Care Group,

a care provider in the Netherlands with multiple locations for people living with severe dementia,

including in that dementia village. She's also advised other nations on this model of care,

and assisted in opening similar facilities outside of the Netherlands. And she joins us today.

Iris, welcome to on point. Hi, Mechna. Thank you for having me.

So first of all, I wonder if you could take us back to before the Hogivake, and I hope I said it

correctly that time. Is that right? Yes, it's with the Dutch, but that's very hard to pronounce.

Okay. So the Hogivake dementia village was opened before 2009. What was the kind of care that

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