Designing Dementia Care: New Lessons Learned at The Hogeweyk
4 December 2024
Episode S4E12:
In our Year End Special, host Lori Pinkerton-Rolet travels to the Netherlands to interview Eloy van Hal, co-founder of Hogeweyk Village, the pioneering dementia care facility. How does the supermarket function has the hub of the care home? Why should we be redefining safety and risk when it comes to dementia environments? Listen to find out the lessons learned, what has changed since this ground-breaking facility opened 15 years ago, and where dementia care could go from here.
- Guest: Eloy van Hal, co-founder of The Hogeweyk
- The Hogeweyk: Normal Life for People Living with Severe Dementia
- Be Advice – Advice and support for the creation of new dementia care models and study visits
- Centre for Policy on Ageing – case study for integrated care and dementia in the Netherlands
- Buro Kade – Architecture at The Hogeweyk
About Eloy van Hal
Eloy brings a strong understanding of innovative care concepts for the elderly and elderly living with dementia and has abundant experience in age care from all over the world. He is director of Van Hal Adviespraktijk BV, his own private company, whose focus is on the elderly care and dementia care sector and community-based aged care.
He is also one of the founders of The Hogeweyk and works as senior managing advisor in the Be Advice | The Hogeweyk Care Concept Advisory team of the Vivium Care group. He has over 25 years’ experience in managing care and more than 15 years in providing strategic and operational advisory services to clients in the public and private sectors. He has worked on a range of projects around the globe, influencing, engaging and advising stakeholders.
Eloy is a much sought-after keynote speaker about dementia care and dementia villages at international summits.