How personalising interiors improves the lives of people with dementia
Simple, yet 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.
I've had a wonderful time, living on ... street. Now I live here, I miss the feeling I had there. My old place really felt like home. I love to have my old front door again.- Mw. Roodenburg | Resident at Pieter van Foreest Weidevogelhof in Pijnacker
It's a beautiful antique door. Very decorative. Every time when I look at my door I think: "Wow it's so great!". Coming home is much nicer now.- Olaf | Resident at HVO Querido in Amsterdam
Residents really like them. For those who are able, it gives them something to talk about with staff and other residents and they go on about how beautiful they are, especially when they first go up. It warms up our hallways which are quite long and institutional.- Megan O’Hara | Community Development Coordinator at Kings Way LifeCare Alliance in New Brunswick, Canada
It is priceless hearing the residents talk about their doors, the memories they talk about...- Patricia Bishop | Daughter of a resident at Nashwaak Villa in New Brunswick, Canada
This was the door of the entrance to his office in Santiago, Chile. He recognised his former door en keeps on pointing whenever we pass it.- Gerard Wijtjes | A family member of a resident at De Waalboog Verpleeghuis Joachim en Anna in Nijmegen
I think it's beautiful, it is like having your own front door. In the beginning, it was all white and that gives you the feeling of being in a hospital.. Now everyone likes his own front door the best.- Dhr. Kloppers | Resident at De Wever Woonzorgcentrum de Bijsterstede in Tilburg
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.