{"id":82508,"date":"2018-03-12T23:27:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T16:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/shops-cafes-and-round-the-clock-care-life-in-a-dementia-village\/"},"modified":"2018-03-13T00:03:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T17:03:09","slug":"shops-cafes-and-round-the-clock-care-life-in-a-dementia-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/shops-cafes-and-round-the-clock-care-life-in-a-dementia-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Shops, cafes and round-the-clock care: life in a \u2018dementia village\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nCan the planned development in Kent, modelled on the Dutch example of Hogeweyk, improve its residents\u2019 lives?It will be a new community within a new neighbourhood. As part of the 4,000-home Mountfield Park development near Canterbury, Kent, there are plans to build a village that will have its own homes, shops and cafes. All of the residents will be people with dementia. It is being modelled on Hogeweyk, a dementia village near Amsterdam, whose inhabitants live in shared houses, have a supermarket, park cafe, cinema, village squares and gardens, as well as round-the-clock care if they need it. \u201cWhat struck us was how unrecognisable the lives of those with dementia were at Hogeweyk compared with those I\u2019ve met in England,\u201d Simon Wright, the chief executive of developers Corinthian Land, told the Times.\u201cA lot of nursing homes are based on a medical approach,\u201d says Frank van Dillen, co-founder of Dementia Village Advisors and one of the architects who designed Hogeweyk. \u201cWe try to de-institutionalise that approach because people want to live as normally as possible.\u201d So there is care and medication, but also everyday activities: \u201cYou want to go to a restaurant, do your own grocery shopping, sit in a bar, walk outside and meet people.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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