The benefit of using all-day reminiscence therapy at Hogewey, compared to traditional nursing homes, is that the residents with dementia are more active and require less medication.
[1] The Hogewey complex is set out like a village with a town square, supermarket, hairdressing salon, theatre, pub, café-restaurant—as well as the twenty-three houses themselves.
However, the staff will not deceive the patients if directly asked, truthfully stating that the residents are in a place where they can receive required care for their condition.
[4] Because of the nature of Alzheimer's disease and dementia, the residents can remember the distant past but not the present, so even truthful answers given by the staff will be forgotten quickly.
[4] The first ideas for the village came about in 1992, from the management team (including Yvonne van Amerongen, Jannette Spiering, e.o) at the traditional nursing home Hogewey after discussing how if their parents became affected by Alzheimer's in the future, they would not want them to endure hospital-like care.