Village Alzheimer
Dax, France
Architecture
Florian Guillaume: “Letting people with Alzheimer's keep an ordinary life, with a real shop and bistro, is deeply humane.”
Opened in 2020 in Dax (Landes), the Village Landais Alzheimer is inspired by the Dutch Hogeweyk model: a 'normalised' life environment for 120 residents with Alzheimer's disease. Residents live in shared houses by lifestyle group (country, city, bourgeois, artisan), shop at a real supermarket, visit a bistro, cultivate a garden. 120 professional caregivers and 120 volunteers integrated into the village daily life. Zero institutional corridors, no restraints. Built by the Département des Landes a
Healing Work · Place Making · Co-Being · Habitat · Health
Website · Curated by Florian Guillaume
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