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RE: Dementia Village Opening In Canada @senseicat
Nice post! My late grandma has lived the last years of her life in the first dementia village, which is in the Netherlands. It's great, all the patients need less medication, they are happier and healthier as well. Great that Canada is going to do it as well!
Also, this village was not more expensive than other elderly homes in the Netherlands, so not something exclusive. That is because it was built on very cheap ground (in the end it does not matter where it is anyway, for the inhabitants will never leave this village). And because the whole architecture is so functional and efficient like adjacent houses which each are inhabited by 6-12 people, so one or two staff members can easily walk from one house to the next. Therefore they need less staff at night or weekends, which also declines the costs of the overall care.