Name: 【TED】Yvonne van Amerongen: The "dementia village" that's redefining elder care (The "dementia village" that's redefining elder care | Yvonne van Amerongen)
Uploaded: 2019-04-08T17:38:14.000Z
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It's a neighborhood in a small town very near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands.

There are 27 houses for six, seven people each.

There's a small mall with a restaurant, a pub, a supermarket, a club room.

There are streets, alleys, there's a theater.

A nursing home for people that live with an advanced dementia

It's getting to be a major problem in the world,

for the world -- it's getting to be a big problem.

We see that we have waiting lists in the nursing homes.

Most people that come to the nursing homes with dementia are women.

And that's also because women are used to taking care of people,

so they can manage to take care of their husband with dementia,

but the other way around is not so easy for the gentlemen.

Dementia is a disease that affects the brain.

People don't know anymore what the time is,

they get to be anxious, depressed, aggressive.

And we often spoke together about the fact

that what we were doing there was not what we wanted for our parents,

\"When we keep on saying this, nothing is going to change.

so that we do want to have our parents here.\"

We talked about that, and what we saw every day

was that the people that lived in our nursing home

because what they saw was a hospital-like environment,

with doctors and nurses and paramedics in uniform,

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

And that was not what these people needed.

and the help, our help, to deal with that dementia.

These people wanted to live in a normal house,

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.

And that's what we should organize for them.

And we said we should organize this like at home,

so they wouldn't live with a group of 15 or 20 or 30, like in a ward.

No, a small group of people, six or seven, family-like.

And we should find a way to select people

so that they did have a good chance to become friends,

And we interviewed all the families of the residents

about \"what is important for your father,\" \"what's important for your mother,\"

\"what is their life like,\" \"what do they want.\"

And we found seven groups, and we call them lifestyle groups.

And for instance, we found this formal lifestyle.

people have a more formal way of interacting with each other,

Their daily rhythm starts later in the day,

Classical music is more heard in this lifestyle group

well, is more French cuisine than traditional Dutch.

and they get up early in the morning, go to bed early,

because they have worked hard their whole life, mostly with their hands,

very often had a very small family business, a small farm, a shop,

And he told me that he would go to his work every morning

That one cigar was the only luxury he could afford for himself.

And after lunch, he would have that one cigar.

And until the day he died in the Hogeweyk,

he was in this little shed, every day, after lunch, to smoke his cigar.

she's been living in the Hogeweyk six weeks now.

And that lifestyle is about traveling, meeting other people, other cultures,

【TED】Yvonne van Amerongen: The "dementia village" that's redefining elder care (The "dementia village" that's redefining elder care | Yvonne van Amerongen)

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【TED】Yvonne van Amerongen: The "dementia village" that's redefining elder care (The "dementia village" that's redefining elder care | Yvonne van Amerongen)

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