International Psychogeriatrics

Table of Contents - 01 November 2011 - Volume 23, Issue 09  

Letter

The ideals of group living homes for people with dementia: do they practice what they preach?

Selma te Boekhorsta1a2a4, Marja F.I.A. Deplaa2a4, Anne Margriet Pota1a3, Jacomine de Langea1 and Jan A. Eefstinga2

a1 Program on Aging, Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction, Utrecht, The Netherlands

a2 Department of Nursing Home Medicine, Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

a3 Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

a4 Ideon – Expertise and Innovation Center for Dementia Professionals, Bilthoven, The Netherlands Email: teboekhorst@ideon-dementie.nl

In the Netherlands, as well as in other countries, nursing home care has been traditionally modeled on hospital care. However, in the last decades of the twentieth century, realization grew that, unlike hospitals, nursing homes needed to serve as literal homes to people. As a consequence, the concept of group living homes for older people with dementia has taken root.

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