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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My wife’s room door looks beautiful and also looks like an actual front door of a house
– Allen Thomas | Husband of resident at Acacia Living Group in Western Australia

To add to the feeling of “home”, the staff and residents as well as families have all reacted very positively.
– Christine Curnow | Member of staff at Mercy Health Mercy Health Bethlehem Home for the Aged in Victoria, Australia

They are colourful and alive , creative and engaging. The True Door helps mum identify her room. It feels more homely and adds a lot more interest- takes away the “sanitation” of aged care. Everyone I show who sees the doors thinks they are marvelous.
– Rose Spinks | Daughter of resident at Mercy Health in Victoria, Australia