@Angel 563277 wrote:

There are different kind of old people homes in Denmark. The one I work in have 50 apartments in total and 12 on the floor where I work. The apartments are their own home and they can come and go as they please. Some can’t leave alone though. Most of them want to eat breakfast in their apartment and have lunch in the big diningroom. If they want peace they go in their own room and listen to music, watch tv or reading.

We do have a new super old people home in Aalborg

http://www.fremtidensplejehjem.dk/media/14969/fp_koncept_engelskfinal.pdf

You do however have to a bit able to take care of yourself if you want to live there. They don’t take old people with alzheimers because it’s very open.

The larger one I work at is halfway between the two of those, although it does take in alzheimers patients on one floor.

It is however far out in the countryside (about 15km from the nearest large towns) The problem we get in the UK (as well as not having very reliable broadband or telecoms services) is that the local communities do not allow enough space for these buildings and don’t want to pay any extra tax (even when many of them are of the same age groups!). There has already been a scandal here as the council homes are privatised to some company based in London who put down all the staff wages and are now in trouble with regulators as the standard of care has dropped (I do not work for these but for a smaller group of private homes)

One thing I noticed was that the residents look a lot healthier (possibly younger?) than British ones and there were a lot more men around to the point at sometimes I wasn’t sure whether some of the balding middle aged men were patients, or managers/engineers/profs (maybe some are both,as it also appears to be some sort of college?). They certainly looked a bit younger than age 75.

I do wonder though if a lot of the difference is in other North European countries different age groups are encouraged to integrate more?