The "dementia village" that's redefining elder care | Yvonne van Amerongen

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🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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How would you prefer to spend the last years of your life: in a sterile, hospital-like institution or in a village with a supermarket, pub, theater and park within easy walking distance? The answer seems obvious now, but when Yvonne van Amerongen helped develop the groundbreaking Hogeweyk dementia care center in Amsterdam 25 years ago, it was seen as a risky break from tradition. Journey with van Amerongen to Hogeweyk and get a glimpse at what a reimagined nursing home based on freedom, meaning and social life could look like.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features dementia care visionary Yvonne Van Amarangen, recorded live at TED Women 2018.
0:10.4	This is De Hoogweig. It's a neighborhood in a small town very near Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
0:17.9	There are 27 houses for six, seven people each.
0:21.6	There's a small mall with a restaurant, a pub, a supermarket, the club room.
0:26.6	There are streets, alleys, there's a theater.
0:31.6	It actually is a nursing home.
0:34.6	A nursing home for people that live with an advanced dementia and that need
0:41.5	24-7 care and support. Dementia is a terrible disease and we still don't have any cure for it.
0:52.2	It's getting to be a major problem in the world.
0:56.0	For the people, for the politicians, for the world,
0:59.0	it's going to be a big problem.
1:01.0	We see that we have waiting lists in the nursing homes.
1:05.0	Most people that come to the nursing homes with dementia are women.
1:09.0	And that's also because women are used to taking care of people,
1:14.6	so they can manage to take care of their husband with dementia,
1:18.6	but the other way around is not so easy for the gentleman.
1:23.6	Dementia is a disease that affects the brain.
1:29.3	The brain is confused.
1:31.3	People don't know anymore what the time is, what's going on, who people are.
1:37.3	They're very confused.
1:39.3	And because of that confusion, they get to be anxious, depressed, aggressive.
1:49.0	This is a traditional nursing home.
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