By combining child- and adult-daycare, inter-generational daycare programs can be great for both groups. Check out this article from 2009 on NYTimes.com.
“When intergenerational day care appeared on the scene in the early 1990s, some experts predicted it would be the answer for working Americans, 44 percent of whom have both dependent children and aging parents. Not only did intergenerational day care offer convenience for families, it held out a promise to reduce ageism among younger generations and dispel what Vera Roos, a professor of psychology at North-West University in South Africa, described as an assumption that aging is nothing but ‘a kind of extended terminal illness.’
It is not a panacea, but researchers who have studied some of the country’s 300-plus intergenerational facilities over the past decade say the best of them provide some of the best care available for frail seniors.” Read more at The New York Times
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closely. It appears she has acqriued the theory without practical knowledge.Most people who have cared for a dementing person with them are very well acquainted with what could be called a person centred approach’ and trying to give the person as good a life as possible. However when looking at how communities can be more dementia-friendly, taking into account the reality of the illness helps. Although it does of course vary in different, there are particular aspects that will be common to many. The way it affects them will depend to some extent on their underlying personality.Most people who have experienced caring for someone with dementia have experienced the many problems, often very traumatic ones, that go along with that. It is a very tragic state.The amount of mental torment in someone with severe dementia doesn’t by that stage leave them a good quality of life; delusions can be frightening, confusing and sometimes threatening in their minds, depending on what form they take and there is very little anyone can do to counter that regardless of day to day experiences. Not everyone develops dementia to that stage but many do. It also depends on stage of dementia, Steve Milton referring to people being diagnosed earlier and using cards etc; for people with insight into their state, at less advanced stage (and hopefully with increasing medication breakthroughs and early diagnosis, more will be prevented from developing further symptoms) I can see they would be helpful. The High Street scheme sounds a great idea as well.