Ældreudvalget 2023-24
ÆLU Alm.del Bilag 15
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Dementia policy in
Alphen aan den Rijn
More than 114.00 inhabitants
Alphen aan den Rijn and
seven surrounding villages
20,2%: 65 years or older
9,2%: 75 years or older
 ÆLU, Alm.del - 2023-24 - Bilag 15: Rejserapport fra udvalgets studietur til Haag, Nederlandene den 18. – 19. september 2023
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Topics:
- Policy on the elderly,
including dementia
- Additional actions
- Dementia scan and
dementia friendly
municipality
 ÆLU, Alm.del - 2023-24 - Bilag 15: Rejserapport fra udvalgets studietur til Haag, Nederlandene den 18. – 19. september 2023
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Impact of the ageing population
The number of elderly
people is doubling in twenty
years time, as is the number
of people with dementia
(2020: 1700, 2040: 3400).
The elderly are getting
older.
Government policy:
Older people should live at
home longer, even when in
need of intense care.
 ÆLU, Alm.del - 2023-24 - Bilag 15: Rejserapport fra udvalgets studietur til Haag, Nederlandene den 18. – 19. september 2023
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Increasing urgency:
Policy on the eldery (2018)
We want to achieve that the elderly in Alphen
aan den Rijn can live and participate as
independently as possible, with support and
care if needed.
 ÆLU, Alm.del - 2023-24 - Bilag 15: Rejserapport fra udvalgets studietur til Haag, Nederlandene den 18. – 19. september 2023
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Policy on the eldery (2018)
Key focus areas:
1.
Housing and the living
environment
2. Support and care
- Elderly abuse, including
financial abuse
- Dementia
- Loneliness
- Informal care support,
including respite care
3. Innovation, digitization
4. Information and awareness
 ÆLU, Alm.del - 2023-24 - Bilag 15: Rejserapport fra udvalgets studietur til Haag, Nederlandene den 18. – 19. september 2023
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Dementia: from policy to
implementation
Additional actions to existing care services (since 2019):
- Patient journey (University of applied sciences Leiden)
- Odense house
- Better at home with dementia
- Information sessions for inhabitants about the signs of
dementia and what they can do
- Extra daycare centers for people with dementia (also to
relieve informal carers)
- Buddyproject for people with dementia (volunteers)
- Care robot Tessa
 ÆLU, Alm.del - 2023-24 - Bilag 15: Rejserapport fra udvalgets studietur til Haag, Nederlandene den 18. – 19. september 2023
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Additional actions:
- Moving groups for
people with dementia
(incl. swimming)
- Care services for young
people with dementia
(65 years and younger)
and their informal carers
- Public campaign and a
paper with articles and
interviews about
dementia, informal care
and respite care (and
other relevant subjects
for the elderly)
 ÆLU, Alm.del - 2023-24 - Bilag 15: Rejserapport fra udvalgets studietur til Haag, Nederlandene den 18. – 19. september 2023
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Additional actions:
- Local policy on housing for the elderly
- Several new small-scale houses for people
with dementia
- 2025: 120 appartments for the elderly (45% for
people with long term care, like dementia)
 ÆLU, Alm.del - 2023-24 - Bilag 15: Rejserapport fra udvalgets studietur til Haag, Nederlandene den 18. – 19. september 2023
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Addional actions:
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Training of workers (municipality)
Theatre show
Extra/new signposts in our townhall
Workgroup dementia
Workgroup to reach elderly migrants
Research on the possibility to create a new, additional
respite facility in our region to relieve informal carers
 ÆLU, Alm.del - 2023-24 - Bilag 15: Rejserapport fra udvalgets studietur til Haag, Nederlandene den 18. – 19. september 2023
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Dementia scan
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Knowledge volume
dementia
Policy and plans
Information exchange
Dementia friendly
municipality
Professional
development/training
Support informal carers
Daytime activities and
respite
Housing
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 ÆLU, Alm.del - 2023-24 - Bilag 15: Rejserapport fra udvalgets studietur til Haag, Nederlandene den 18. – 19. september 2023
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Dementia friendly municipality
In a dementia friendly municipality people with
dementia can participate as long as possible in
society and
is tailor-made guidance possible for people with
dementia and their carers.
This is how a society is created in which as much
people as possible know how to interact with
people with dementia.