Reports – true doors ®

One-Hundred True Doors Stories

This report explains what person centred dementia care is, why it is vitally important and places True Doors in this context. Feedback from staff and family members of elders at ten nursing homes helps illustrate the range of benefits.

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Trimbos Institute Report

The Trimbos Institute is the Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction. This report summarises their findings of one of our first projects in 2015.

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 with feedback from True Doors projects in nine countries.

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The True Doors made it easier to tell the residents where their rooms are. Choosing the doors brings back memories, which increases the feeling of privacy. My home, my front door. Also, the doors are a nice start for a conversation.
– Christina Geyssens | Head Nurse at OCMW Gent – WZC Het Heiveld in Gent, Belgium

This is the door from my mum’s childhood home, where she had a wonderful time. Since she received her personal True Door, we talk about the past more often, about where she lived. Other residents used to accidentally walk into my mum’s room. That doesn’t happen anymore, now that she has a True Door. This gives her peace and privacy. Every resident has his/her own personalised door, so they’re finding their owns room more easily. When the family visits her, it feels more like we are entering her home, rather than being in a nursing home.
– E. van Velzen | A family member of a resident at Topaz Overryhn in Leiden

The True Doors give the hallways a nice atmosphere. Because the residents had the opportunity to make their own decision, it gave them the feeling of creating their own living space. Also, they recognize their room now.
– | Nurse at HVO Querido in Amsterdam