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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We are very proud to be involved with such an amazing creation, that brings a lot of stories, that have been told to us, by our friends who live here, to life. Some love to talk about where they once lived. One lady told me, she now feels as though she brought part of her old home with her, to her new home. She explained it to be of great comfort to her and it made her feel peaceful.

A lot of our friends here love the fact that they can easily find their own rooms. Not having every door the exact same is a blessing to them. No more getting lost as they now recognize their own door.

This project has sparked a lot of chatter. Most people coming into our place want to know what made each person here decide on such a door, so it’s a real joy to see our community interacting with all our friends that make Nashwaak Villa their home.

Families are totally immersed in this project and are so proud to have their loved one, make the decision as to what door they wanted. So often so much is taken away, and we just really wanted to give something back.

Some of our friends here say they feel more secure as if the were home.
– Pamela Spilman | Nursing Staff at Nashwaak Villa in New Brunswick, Canada

My mother has lived behind this door for the most part of her life. I can tell it is easier for her to find her own door now. Sometimes she says the mailbox should be fixed. I believe she recognises her front door, because she says: “I’m going home”, whenever she returns to her apartment.
– J. van Bastelaar | A family member of a resident at Archipel Zorggroep Passaat in Eindhoven

I have noticed how pleasurable and refreshing and homely feeling the True Doors have made residents and staff experience I personally felt very thrilled and my breath taken away – a very postivie experience.
– Lyn Walhe | Member of staff at Mercy Health Mercy Health Bethlehem Home for the Aged in Victoria, Australia