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Dementia friendly neighbourhoods
How to design a neighbourhood with older people in mind.
How do you help older people, and particularly those with dementia, to remain independent for longer?
In Singapore, where dementia affects roughly 1 in 10 people over 60, the government are betting that the re-designing neighbourhoods with an aging population might just be the answer.
Reporter Craig Langran visits the Singaporean suburb of Nee Soon 鈥揳n area of public housing which has been overhauled by a team of healthcare experts, designers, and residents 鈥� and looks at some of the other innovations in elderly care taking place in the country.
