The housemates everything one young student learnt about love, care, and dementia when he chose to live in a nursing home
"Twenty-one-year-old nursing student Teun Toebes (both broke and curious) decided to move into a nursing home and experience the daily life of elderly residents, not as a nurse or a carer - but as a housemate. The experience was to change his life, as well as the lives of his new friends. He initiat...
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September Publishing,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- I. Seeing the Light
- My heart's been stolen
- An open mind
- The first steps
- II. Between Hope and Fear
- Life after death
- The big why
- The house rules
- III. Safety First
- Reality check
- Perfectly normal
- 2017
- IV. I Think, Therefore I Am
- Things were better in the old days
- Silent night
- I haven't lost my mind, you know
- Normal life
- Human forever A conclusion
- A cry from the heart
- My friends in their own words
- Ethical considerations
- Afterword The path of most resistance
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- About the author.
