Multiple Scales: Finding the Missing Link

Shaping Dementia Environments

In this episode, we explore the opportunities and challenges for older adults living with dementia to experience living beyond the scale of just one building. How do our neighborhoods, towns, and cities support people living with dementia in the community? How do we blur the boundaries between dedicated care environments and their broader context?

Our first interview is with Barbra McLendon is Director of Public Policy at Alzheimer’s Los Angeles, a non-profit organization serving the Los Angeles area for over 40 years. The organization aims to improve the lives of local families affected by Alzheimer’s and dementia by increasing awareness, delivering effective programs and services, providing compassionate support, and advocating for quality care and a cure.

Then, we speak with Eloy van Hal who is director of Van Hal Advisors and senior managing advisor in the Be The Hogeweyk Care Concept Advisory team of the Vivium Care Group. Eloy managed several nursing homes and assisted living communities over more than 20 years before managing the former nursing home of Hogewey and eventually developing and co-founding the Hogeweyk (the Hogewey dementia village). He was instrumental in its design, construction, implementation and maintaining and improving the concept. Eloy managed the Hogeweyk from 2008 to 2015, and now works to share his knowledge and experience with others across the world by providing strategic and operational advisory service to clients in the public and private sectors.

Our last conversation is with Stefano Recalcati Stefano, who is based in Milan, Italy and is currently Arup’s masterplanning and urban design skills leader for Europe. Trained as an architect, his PhD was on the interactions between architecture and urban planning. He has international experience in strategic planning, urban planning, masterplanning and urban design. Before joining Arup, Stefano worked on several urban developments, advising public and private bodies in Italy and abroad. He enjoys lecturing, teaching and writing about urban planning. He’s written several books and articles on cities and urban regeneration. He is an adjunct professor at the School of Civil Architecture, Politecnico di Milano.

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