Am amazing village designed just for people with Dementia!

[MoonRiver]

Centuries after Shakespeare wrote about King Lear's symptoms, there's still no perfect way to care for sufferers of dementia and Alzheimer's. In the Netherlands, however, a radical idea is being tested: Self-contained "villages" where people with dementia shop, cook, and live together—safely.

We, as a population, are aging rapidly. According to the Alzheimer's Association, one in three seniors today dies with dementia. The process of finding—and paying for—long-term care can be very confusing, unfortunately, and difficult for both loved ones and patients. Most caretakers are underpaid, overworked, and must drive far distances to their jobs—giving away some 17 billion unpaid hours of care a year. And it's just going to get worse: Alzheimer's has increased by an incredible 68 percent since 2000, and the cost of caring for sufferers will increase from $203 billion last year to $1.2 trillion by 2050.

In short, we're not prepared for the future that awaits us—financially, infrastructurally, or even socially. But in the small town of Weesp, in Holland—that bastion of social progressivism—at a dementia-focused living center called De Hogeweyk, aka Dementiavillage, the relationship between patients and their care is serving as a model for the rest of the world.

http://gizmodo.com/inside-an-amazing-village-designed-just-for-people-with-1526062373

[hack89]

1. I thought you were posting about Congress. nt

[dembotoz]

2. beat me to it but the problem remains

we must find some creative ways to handle this growing problem

my aunt is 89, her body is strong-and her mind........

her family is fortunate they found a good placement for her but i think it is ohmygod expensive

[MoonRiver]

4. And I'm sure living at that village would not be cheap in the U.S.

In Holland it is probably free/state subsidized.

[MoonRiver]

3. lol!