Hogewey - the happy home for residents with dementia

Hogewey, 30 minutes from Amsterdam, is a village residence for those with dementia. Services have been designed to provide a home like environment, as an alternative to the previous institutional incarnation of the service, with large buildings, locked wards uniformed nurses and heavy medication. Residents now live in small group houses, with two carers on duty in a house for 6 or 7 residents. The varied home like environments help to ease the confusion and anger residents with dementia can experience, with the different houses being tailored to echo the earlier lifestyles or residents. Read more in the Guardian 27 August.