![Corrie Visser suffers from severe dementia and is now living in a cutting-edge facility in Holland.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/130710161642-wus-holland-dementia-1.jpg?q=w_1920,h_1080,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447)
Dementia care gets a makevover —
Corrie Visser suffers from severe dementia and is now living in a cutting-edge facility in Holland.
![From outside, Hogewey does not look special but its approach to dementia care is attracting health care leaders from across Europe and as far away as Japan.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/130710164950-wus-holland-dementia-2.jpg?q=w_1920,h_1080,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447)
Dementia care gets a makevover —
From outside, Hogewey does not look special but its approach to dementia care is attracting health care leaders from across Europe and as far away as Japan.
![The two-story buildings form a courtyard where residents can roam on their own and where they are watched by carers, some of whom staff the site's shops.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/130710165212-wus-holland-dementia-3.jpg?q=w_1920,h_1080,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447)
Dementia care gets a makevover —
The two-story buildings form a courtyard where residents can roam on their own and where they are watched by carers, some of whom staff the site's shops.
![Theo Visser, who could not provide the at-home 24-hour-care his wife needs, visits Corrie every day.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/130710165408-wus-holland-dementia-4.jpg?q=w_1920,h_1080,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447)
Dementia care gets a makevover —
Theo Visser, who could not provide the at-home 24-hour-care his wife needs, visits Corrie every day.
![Other visitors spend time with their relatives in the courtyard village where carers and volunteers keep an eye on the residents.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/130710165706-wus-holland-dementia-5.jpg?q=w_1920,h_1080,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447)
Dementia care gets a makevover —
Other visitors spend time with their relatives in the courtyard village where carers and volunteers keep an eye on the residents.
![Furniture and art in the center's living areas are picked to reflect décor that residents are familiar with from their earlier years.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/130710165903-wus-holland-dementia-6.jpg?q=w_1920,h_1080,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447)
Dementia care gets a makevover —
Furniture and art in the center's living areas are picked to reflect décor that residents are familiar with from their earlier years.
![Ada and Ben Picavet can't hold conversations anymore but they still enjoy making music together.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/130710170228-wus-holland-7.jpg?q=w_1920,h_1080,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447)
Dementia care gets a makevover —
Ada and Ben Picavet can't hold conversations anymore but they still enjoy making music together.
![Yvonne van Amerongen, one of Hogewey's founders, was inspired to find a new way of providing nursing home care after her father died -- and she realized she wouldn't want him to have lived at a nursing home.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/130710170407-wus-holland-dementia-8.jpg?q=w_1920,h_1080,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447)
Dementia care gets a makevover —
Yvonne van Amerongen, one of Hogewey's founders, was inspired to find a new way of providing nursing home care after her father died -- and she realized she wouldn't want him to have lived at a nursing home.
![Despite the efforts to make their lives as normal as possible, all of the residents suffer severe dementia and require 24-hour-a-day care.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/130710170550-wus-holland-9.jpg?q=w_1920,h_1080,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447)
Dementia care gets a makevover —
Despite the efforts to make their lives as normal as possible, all of the residents suffer severe dementia and require 24-hour-a-day care.