A care revolution: Inside Canada’s first dementia village
Click to share quote on Twitter: "Having society, first of all, realize that people with dementia are first and foremost people. They are your family in many cases. They can live a good life, a different life, perhaps, but still a good life," said Jespersen.
Inside the gated community, the people interacting and taking care of the Villagers, as the residents are known as, are staff specially trained to work with people with cognitive decline. Jespersen said The Village also requires its staff to take specialized training, in addition to standard healthcare requirements.“We call it ‘Cracking the Dementia Code’ and it’s online or in person,” he said. “And then we have continual training about working with people living with dementia.
“We want to deinstitutionalize The Village as much as possible. Institutions, hospitals wear uniforms, they wear smocks, they wear scrubs. And we don’t want that, we aren’t that. So we just [tell the staff to] dress normal,” Jespersen added.
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