Insight Series #7, a dementia friendly neighbourhood

The new book Insight series #7, a dementia friendly neigbourhood (read the book on ISSUU)

‘Twenty years of research has still yielded no cure for Alzheimer’s disease. Where’s the holdup?’ Says de Volkskrant newspaper dated February 8, 2014. ‘Eighty thousand people with dementia are living by themselves’ reported the NRC Handelsblad on October 5, 2013. ‘The Netherlands are awaiting an explosive growth in the number of dementia patients between the age of 50 and 60. This is largely due to an unhealthy lifestyle.’ This is the expectation of four professors at the VU Medical Centre in Amsterdam.
This is the kind of messages we hear and read regularly in the media. It is only when you are intimately familiar with dementia, that it touches you.
People with dementia have to live and be cared for at home, with serious consequences. Dementia will also become increasingly visible in the public sphere. How do we deal with it? Do you help someone who doesn’t know the way home anymore?

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