What can we learn from the "Dementia Village"? with founder Janette Spiering

In this episode, I am delighted to welcome Janette Spiering, who is the founder of the Dementia Village in the Netherlands. Janette shares how she bought her vision to life, the challenges she had and the impact this revolutionary way of supporting people with dementia has had on individuals but also on the way people with dementia are supported worldwide. I ask her if this model be used for people with other support needs, listen to hear her thoughts.
Jannette Spiering is founder of the Hogewey vision on care for people living with dementia and founder of The Hogeweyk® , world’s first “dementia-village”. Jannette has been working in care since 1982 and has almost 40 years of experience in operational, tactic and strategic management. Jannette focusses particularly on the elderly care & dementia care sector and community-based aged care.
Keywords she uses are: de-institutionalization, transformation and normalization of the current and established vision of elderly care.
She is a strong advocate for humanizing care and calls for a radical change, a paradigm shift, from the prevailing medical model to a social approach to ageing and dementia.
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