Moving to the Care Home: Entering a New Life

Dagmardsminde is a small innovative nursing home in Denmark with a remarkable and life-affirming approach to dementia care. Here, founder of the home (and author of Living Normally with Dementia: One Care Home’s Story and How to Make it Yours), May Eiby, shares how they welcome new residents to their home. A nursing home should provide proper care for a person, but it can also be a place that opens up new possibilities. What if moving to a nursing home could become a kind of adventure for people? The goal at Dagmarsminde is to make moving to a nursing…