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• Dementia village in Warwick is a pioneer in person-centred care

  30-12-2022 07:00
  Woodside is modelled on a Dutch facility that connects residents to normal life and improves wellbeingIt is the dementia care complex with the air of The Truman Show. Residents shop in a mini mart, hang out at the Cup Above cafe, get spruced up at Cutters Hair and Beauty. There is even a crazy golf course.Woodside Care Village in Warwick is staged like a town centre in miniature, with benches and a fountain, cafe tables and front doors to homes styled as either “town”, “country
  
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• Archbishops’ inquiry to call for better dementia support in community

  30-12-2022 07:00
  The church leaders’ commission will recommend more resources to make society ‘welcoming and safe’ for those affectedSociety must stop treating people with dementia as a burden and provide better care for them in the community, an inquiry into social care commissioned by the archbishops of Canterbury and York will say in the new year.The church leaders’ Reimagining Care Commission will argue: “We are too quick to dismiss people who have dementia as burdens to be mana
  
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