Designing Homes for Extra Care
June 22, 2023
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The Housing Learning and Improvement Network looks at the design process and philosophy behind creating a successful Extra Care scheme.
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Inside Canada’s New Dementia Village
May 28, 2023
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Canada’s first dementia village enables its inhabitants to live their lives in freedom and dignity, while ensuring they have person-centered care. Learn more.
Who’s That Singing? Why, It’s Margaret!
May 16, 2023
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When Jamie Lee Morley first heard singing from care-resident Margaret Mackie (she has dementia), he automatically assumed the beautiful voice was from a nearby radio. Nobody at Northcare Suites Care Home could have imagined what would happen next.
A Caregiver’s Take on Memory Care
April 16, 2023
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“My wife Theresa, at the age of 49, was diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease in 2018. In April of 2023, at the age of 54, I placed her into a memory care facility. This is how it went.”
Escaping Smoggy Areas Helps Brainpower
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Dementia Village In-Depth
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Successful Dementia Village on a Government Budget
October 13, 2022
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NEW VIDEO: How should governments help us spend the last years of life? In a sterile institution or in an easy-walking village with a supermarket,
For First Time in 35 Years, Pianist with Dementia Forms New Band
September 28, 2022
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VIDEO: A 93-year-old jazz pianist suffering from dementia and depression was given a new lease of life when his care home discovered his talent.
Judge Halts Nursing Home “Dumpings”
September 13, 2022
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ABUSE VIDEO + ARTICLE: Over the past decade, nursing homes increasingly “dumped” residents on hospitals, refusing them permission to return. There were no consequences. In
Butterfly Project Enlivens Dementia Care
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INSPIRING VIDEO: Watch this transformation of the Redstone dementia unit. Peel Region took a risk, with a plan to transform the Redstone long-term care home,
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