Normal-looking Dutch village in which everyone suffers from dementia Bashny.Net

Unconventional approach to meditsine

isolated in the Dutch village of Hoogeveen, located on the outskirts of Visp, home to only 152 residents who seem to live a normal life: they eat, sleep, walk through the village and visit the shops and restaurants . However, each of them is constantly watched. This is because Hoogeveen is actually a medical institution, and all its inhabitants suffer from slaboumiya.

The main objective of "the village" - to support the residents of the illusion that they are living a normal life. 152 patients have no idea that their village is a psychiatric hospital, and that all their homes are under constant review. The village residents do not live in the wards. Instead, they live in groups of six or seven people in the building, with one or two guardians. Houses are equipped in accordance with the period of time when short-term memory of patients stopped working properly: in the style of the 50s, 70s or even the 2000s, everything up to skatertey.

Patients can walk freely around the neighborhood and admire the landscaped trees and fountains, or relax on the benches. Medical staff is present everywhere: nurses, doctors and the elderly go through the city, posing as cashiers, clerks, customers in shops and many who eschё.

The villagers can not leave her. Two-storey houses in which they live, form the perimeter, so that there is no way to get lost or go. If one of the patients approaching the door in the perimeter, hospital staff politely informs them that the door is locked, and sends them on another marshrutu.

It turns out that the room an elderly man in such an environment is not only useful, but also much cheaper than the clock care at home. And family members of patients who often do not have enough time to provide them with proper care, get rid of serious stressa.

Yvonne van Amerongen, one of the founders of Hoogeveen, said that the idea to create a village came into her head for deeply personal reasons. The idea occurred to her when she was working in a traditional nursing home. "It was a moment when my mother called and told that my father died," - he says ona.

Then in 1992 she decided to discuss with colleagues how you can turn a typical nursing home more liveable environment. And in 2009 he was created a residential complex, covering an area of ​​1, 5 hectares, in which there were 23 houses.

via factroom.ru