Comments on 1. Environments

Objectives:

• To provide dementia patients with attentive care
  • having few residents results in a more focused care distribution
  • with few residents, there will be less of a feeling of neglect
  • patients will feel more comfortable, with the home-like interior and architecture of the residence.
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Voorbeeld:

Residential care center for the elderly at Schipluiden (location Akkerleven).

• 75 residents, each has its own room
• There are 4 departments; 3 have a central living room

Objectives

• To provide care to residents who need guidance in daily life due to a physical and/or mental disability.
  • A department for residents who need heavy physical care
  • A department where sheltered housing is offered to residents with a heavier form of dementia.
  • And assisted living support to the other residents.

Person-oriented approach

• To enable the residents as much as possible to live the life that they were used to.
• To confirm people, whether or not with dementia, in their being human.
• To take their feelings and experiences seriously.