Living with Dementia: To Be or Not To Be | Yvonne van Amerongen | TEDxWarwick

Yvonne van Amerongen is Head of Quality and Innovation at Hogewey, and one of the founders of its internationally award-winning small-scale living model of care.
Yvonne has been working at Vivium Zorggroep since 1983, in particular at nursing home Hogewey. In 1990, she developed a new product which revolutionised care for people developing dementia in the vicinity of the Hogewey nursing home. In 1993, Yvonne became a fulltime project manager for the development of the care project small-scale living with lifestyle for the psycho-geriatrics target group.This project was also the subject matter of her graduation thesis for the Higher Vocational Training in Social Pedagogic Care with a specialisation in Management. Since 1996 Yvonne has been a staff executive for Quality & Innovation for Vivium Zorggroep in Weesp.
Hogewey is located in Weesp, a town outside Amsterdam. Since it opened in 2009, Hogewey has attracted a huge amount of interest from all over Europe, with a centre based on its design currently being built in Switzerland.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@indiebaby]

This video needs more views! This woman and the people who helped build Hogeway are real heros in dementia care.

[@tammygustafson8800]

This Ted Talk needs more views indeed! Yvonne's concepts of re-imagining dementia is what is very much needed to move forward. Currently there is no cure for dementia. We can't wait until there is, there is life to be lived and all deserve a quality of life while living with this unforgiving disease.

[@vietnguyenn.214]

Thank you Yvonne! Huge respect for you! Best of luck for you!

[@tomtom2ization]

WONDERFUL!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I WISH ALL WHO OWN NURSING HOMES COULD SEE THIS!!!!

[@salfordyoungonsetdementia4270]

This is amazing Yvonne! Excellent story and truly inspirational!

[@medinalake6074]

This is beautiful, I can't stop crying because how is this such a huge part of life

[@mariapropst7935]

THIS VIDEO IS BRILLIANT UPLIFTING AND SO TOUCHING!!! IT NEEDS TO BE SEEN BY EVERYONE!!!! SHARE IT NOW!! PLEASE, AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING AND INSPIRING AND EDUCATING EVERYONE!!!!! GOD BLESS YOU!!!!

[@JuliaAranuiFaed]

Well I’m living in a elder care hospital and I don’t think I am demented. But I do have to point that out to the caregivers about every two weeks. I have to get cross and unpleasant with things that are being poorly done. I have to ignore puerile directions that are irrelevant like put on your shoes. I have to ask for help regularly or the caregivers feel neglected. It’s a constant rebalancing between getting the care I really need and refusing to enter the tender trap of allowing myself to “be done to” when I can really do something for myself. I try always to explain when accepting help that my request is a temporary thing and that I always have it under review.

[@chellegriggs]

This is amazing

[@georgiehollander2199]

This lady is a Visionary. How wonderful !! We need these Villages in Australia. The Netherlands is far more advanced in everything they do..............I wish there would be more like that here in Australia !!!!..........Well done Yvonne.......AUSTRALIA NEEDS VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA HERE TOO............Similar to Switzerland , Netherlands, Denmark.....

[@susankemble-jones3021]

I watched a segment on her village and i think its brilliant! We have some facilities like this here in Australia

[@sharyn57]

Where in Australia? My father has dementia and lives in an aged care facility in central Victoria. He dislikes living there and wants to go home but cannot live alone so what other options are there?

[@chriski5455]

@Susan .. lucky you !

[@tomanderson975]

A TEDx with only 1 comment?

[@mirelacarp5641]

Not anymore.

[@patriciavandevelde5469]

I don t want to become dementiated!!!!!!!!!!

[@patriciavandevelde5469]

Yeah yeah yeah i dec ide myself when enough is enough!!!!!! My father and mother in a carehouse cost 4000 euro a month!!!!! Doctors keep them alive for the money!

[@endecle4753]

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