Reports – True Doors ® – Decals that transform facilities into homes

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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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

Mom put a lot of thought into each picture on the door. It truly tells her life story. She is so proud to show it to everyone that stops by.
– Anna Rice | Daughter of a resident at Nashwaak Villa in New Brunswick, Canada

We had fun interactions while deciding on the right door. Residents find their rooms more easily and memories are awakened. Makes the hallways seem bigger with the (true) doors. I love this. I have no complaints at all.
– Bernard Gullison | Husband of a resident at Nashwaak Villa in New Brunswick, Canada