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.
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If you've come to this section on the website, I suppose I've accomplished what I set out to.
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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.
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"For those with Alzheimer's, a place to remember" - Psychology Today
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"The comforting fictions of dementia care" - The New Yorker
"Denmark's 'House of Memories' re-creates 1950s for Alzheimer's patients" - NPR
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"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
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