Read the excerpts from this article, or for a fuller explanation, click its link to go to the full article. The most important paragraph may be this: The effort could be more difficult in the United States (than in the Netherlands and other euro nations), where the costs will fall primarily on individuals rather than governments.

People had been reticent to do it in the U.S. because it’s a private-paying market, as opposed to Europe, which is all [mostly] socialized medicine. […]

What is are dementia villages? And why don’t we have them?

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As Cases Soar, ‘Dementia Villages’ Look Like the Future of Home Care

By Joann Plockova, New York Times, Reporting from Weesp, the Netherlands, July 3, 2023

Is it me or do these pictures of dementia villages look like a modern version of Victorian asylums? Then they were well designed and built to last, probably longer than the 21st Century equivalents. Without the information they could be taken for prisons, hospitals or colleges in my opinion. [Ed.]