{"id":52185,"date":"2026-09-10T04:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T04:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=52185"},"modified":"2026-09-10T04:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T04:52:22","slug":"the-young-and-healthy-dutchman-who-moved-into-a-care-home-podcast-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=52185","title":{"rendered":"The young and healthy Dutchman who moved into a care home &#8211; podcast | Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\"><strong>Teun Toebes<\/strong> was 17, a student nurse, when he first entered a care home. He entered, he remembers, \u201cthe closed ward\u201d, where residents were locked inside. It illustrated perfectly, he thought, \u201chow we have lost the plot\u201d when it comes to treating dementia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Teun \u2013 together with filmmaker <strong>Jonathan de Jong<\/strong> \u2013 have just released a documentary, Forever Human, on his journey in care since: living for years in homes across the Netherlands, and then travelling beyond to find the best examples of dementia care across the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Together, they talk to <strong>Helen Pidd <\/strong>about the radical new approach they are proposing for dementia \u2013 from pets, to cooking to solo walks \u2013 focused on maximising freedom for those in care.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-vyhg7z\"><\/span> Photograph: Percy &amp; Warren PR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teun Toebes was 17, a student nurse, when he first entered a care home. He entered, he remembers, \u201cthe closed ward\u201d, where residents were locked inside. It illustrated perfectly, he thought, \u201chow we have lost the plot\u201d when it comes to treating dementia. Teun \u2013 together with filmmaker Jonathan de Jong \u2013 have just released<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[165,6626,25292,2021,456,6361,515,801],"class_list":{"0":"post-52185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-care","9":"tag-dementia","10":"tag-dutchman","11":"tag-healthy","12":"tag-home","13":"tag-moved","14":"tag-podcast","15":"tag-young"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}