Living with Dementia: To Be or Not To Be, Yvonne van Amerongen, TEDx Warwick
Yvonne van Amerongen is Head of Quality and Innovation at Hogewey, and one of the founders of its internationally awardwinning smallscale living model of care. Yvonne has been working at Vivium Zorggroep since 1983, in particular at nursing home Hogewey. In 1990, she developed a new product which revolutionised care for people developing dementia in the vicinity of the Hogewey nursing home. In 1993, Yvonne became a fulltime project manager for the development of the care project smallscale living with lifestyle for the psychogeriatrics target project was also the subject matter of her graduation thesis for the Higher Vocational Training in Social Pedagogic Care with a specialisation in Management. Since 1996 Yvonne has been a staff executive for Quality Innovation for Vivium Zorggroep in Weesp. Hogewey is located in Weesp, a town outside Amsterdam. Since it opened in 2009, Hogewey has attracted a huge amount of interest from all over Europe, with a centre based on its design currently being
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