Creating a Dementia Friendly Society

Today’s bonus episode continues the conversation Jennifer had with Eloy van Hal, one of the founders and implementers of the physical community and operational philosophy of Hogewey Dementia Village in the Netherlands.

Their model is based on normalizing life for older people living with dementia, and this goes beyond the four walls of their community and to society as a whole. In this bonus episode, he and Jennifer talked more in depth about what some of the barriers and opportunities are to creating a society that is more holistically accepting and empowering of people living with dementia.

Eloy van Hal is director of Van Hal Advisors and senior managing advisor in the Be The Hogeweyk Care Concept Advisory team of the Vivium Care Group. Eloy managed several nursing homes and assisted living communities over more than 20 years before managing the former nursing home of Hogewey and eventually developing and co-founding the Hogeweyk (the Hogewey dementia village). He was instrumental in its design, construction, implementation and maintaining and improving the concept. Eloy managed the Hogeweyk from 2008 to 2015, and now works to share his knowledge and experience with others across the world by providing strategic and operational advisory service to clients in the public and private sectors.

Continue the conversation in our LinkedIn group Shaping Dementia Environments:

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9044567/

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