Article in Korea Biomedial Review
Dutch ‘dementia village’ replaces brick institutions with colorful houses
Dementia affects around one out of four Koreans in their 80s with the nation’s overall dementia rate rising 20-fold between 2002 and 2013. The country is rapidly transforming into a super-aged society with the elderly accounting for about a quarter of the total population by 2030.
Korean nursing homes can learn from the Hogeweyk
Dementia causes memory loss, leads to problems of aggression, finding the right words, recognizing people and things, how to react to a situation, and having trouble functioning with daily tasks, among others. It affects more than 475 million people in the world with 7.7 million new cases diagnosed each year.
It was against this backdrop Yvonne van Amerongen, founder of the Hogeweyk care concept and the “dementia village” in the Netherlands, presented a new approach to dementia care at the Korea Healthcare Congress 2017 in Seoul Tuesday.
Dementia affects around one out of four Koreans in their 80s with the nation’s overall dementia rate rising 20-fold between 2002 and 2013. The country is rapidly transforming into a super-aged society with the elderly accounting for about a quarter of the total population by 2030.
Dementia causes memory loss, leads to problems of aggression, finding the right words, recognizing people and things, how to react to a situation, and having trouble functioning with daily tasks, among others. It affects more than 475 million people in the world with 7.7 million new cases diagnosed each year.
It was against this backdrop Yvonne van Amerongen, founder of the Hogeweyk care concept and the “dementia village” in the Netherlands, presented a new approach to dementia care at the Korea Healthcare Congress 2017 in Seoul Tuesday.