Preservation of the Fleeting
For Further Exploration
When it comes to this project, the primary goal of mine was not to teach, but inspire. I wanted to stimulate the audience and flicker the light bulb, allowing readers to think about these concepts and conflicts through different perspectives than they had before.
If you've come to this section on the website, I suppose I've accomplished what I set out to.
Included below are a few links to external resources that I used to ground my own story. If you want to further explore the idea of a "reminiscence apartment" or challenge yourself to view nostalgia through a different lens, these resources are most definitely a good place to start.
"For those with Alzheimer's, a place to remember" - Psychology Today
"The comforting fictions of dementia care" - The New Yorker
"Denmark's 'House of Memories' re-creates 1950s for Alzheimer's patients" - NPR
"The Dutch village where everyone has dementia" - The Atlantic
"Dementia villages evoke nostalgia, for better and worse" - Green Builder Media
"What is nostalgia good for? Quite a bit, research shows" - The New York Times
"The dark side of nostalgia" - Psychology Today