Senior Housing News October 23, 2024
For years, the memory care sector has looked to the Hogeweyk dementia village in the Netherlands as a global standard for person-centered care – and there is still more that operators can learn from it.
A handful of senior care experts and operators visited the Hogeweyk earlier this year, and all of them came away with new ideas for how U.S. senior living providers can better care for those living with dementia.
The Hogeweyk, in Weesp, Netherlands, outside of Amsterdam, opened in 2009 with an open village concept for those in various stages of cognitive decline or dementia diagnosis.
Today, the dementia village has over 180 residents in 27 homes, with homes divided by lifestyle to reflect the ways residents...
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