How personalising interiors improves the lives of people with dementia
Simple and powerful ideas to help people with dementia, looking at 35 years of research findings from around the world.
Improve
True Doors ® decals are person centred care solutions to improve quality of life for elders with dementia, while also transforming cold institutional spaces into warm and familiar homely environments.
Transform
Residents' identities are brought to the fore. Reminiscence and social interaction is stimulated. People recognise and find their own doors. Privacy and sense of safety increases. Facilities feel more like homes.
Create
Save your favourites to create our own catalogue from the largest collection of door decals in the world. Quality photos of actual doors, made-to-measure and applied on flat door surfaces.
Stories
From nursing staff, family members and people with dementia.
Residents now know which room is theirs. In the evenings they say: "I'm home, I'm going to sleep now!" There's less agitation. Family members are also very excited about the doors.- | Nurse at De Waalboog Verpleeghuis Joachim en Anna in Nijmegen
We the residents of Nashwaak Villa are truly delighted with the new doors. Many friends and relatives have come to see the doors. They are beautiful. Beautiful! It feels like part of Holland has come to us.- Greta Spliman | Resident at Nashwaak Villa in New Brunswick, Canada
I can tell some residents recognize their own front door. They often say: "This is my front door." Sometimes they visit each other and some of them now lock their door.- Mandy van Broekhoven | Nurse at Laverhof Het Retraitehuis in Uden
For some of our residents, it's easier to find their rooms now that they have a True Door. Residents help each other out, when someone has difficulties finding his/her own place. They feel safer, now that their room is more like an appartment, something they own.- Anne Oomes | Nurse at Stichting Elisabeth in Breda
He now has our own front door back. The door brings back memories, he often talks about the past.- J. Beukema | A family member of a resident at Woonzorggroep Samen Noorderlicht in Hippolytushoef
Visitors really appreciate the True Doors. They are very positive about it!- | Nurse at De Waalboog Verpleeghuis Joachim en Anna in Nijmegen
Enquiries
Contact us if you are interested in a True Door from the collection, if you want to create a personal True Door, or for help with larger scale programs.