99% Invisible
99% Invisible
Roman Mars
Model Village
35 minutes Posted Oct 24, 2023 at 8:22 pm.
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For decades, society has dealt with people with dementia and other forms of cognitive decline by storing them away in unstimulating, medicalized environments. But around the world, a new architectural movement is starting to challenge that old paradigm. Designing environments where people with dementia can live as normally as possible, until the very end.

Model Village

 

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