Senior Housing News June 12, 2024
By Sloane Airey
The idea of creating memory care villages gets a lot of ink – but not too many bricks.
Ever since the opening of the memory care village “Hogeweyk” in Weesp, Netherlands, there has been no shortage of news coverage about how operators in the U.S. could learn from it and potentially adapt it for the incoming baby boomer generation. But 15 years after Hogeweyk took the memory care sector by storm, new coverage on dementia villages continues, but the building process largely does not.
That’s not to say memory care operators aren’t trying. Across the country, there are a handful of projects underway to emulate the dementia village in The Netherlands, including one from Willow Valley Communities...
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