Case Study: Dementia Village

I was happy to know that there is still hope for humanity to be restored after knowing about Hogewey, or simply known as Dementia Village. It is located in Weesp, a few kilometers away from city of Amsterdam, Netherlands’ capital. I have learned that nursing homes may look differently to what I perceive. They had built the village to correct or see a new perspective of how nursing homes would look like, especially for patients with dementia. Putting an elderly to this type of village encourages them to live as normal and safe in their remaining days. Hogewey has caught the attention of health care professionals in other countries and built their own dementia village. In Canada they built the Georgian Bay Retirement Home. England has their counterpart and it’s called Grove Care and Scotland’s Stirtling. Nursing homes are often linked to poor quality care system as volunteers or caregivers get stressed out or burned out of too many patients to handle. Because of this, one of the developers or creators of the Dementia Village came up with the idea to build like a safe haven for these clients. Oftentimes, patients suffer from mistreatment and …show more content…
They let their patients wander within the facility attracting them to engage in activities to feel normal, seeing such a neighborhood. The nursing facility is funded as same as other nursing care homes in the Dutch society, so hence I don’t think funding will be an issue at all. This is a good reform that can be implemented in our nursing facilities as well or better yet creating our own dementia village. Canada, The Great Britain and Scotland are some of the countries who were able to build their community for our elderly with dementia, the United States should follow them and make our elders with alzheimer’s disease to have a better quality of