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“#where nursing home meets the outside world<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n DAX, France \u2013 Residents of the purpose-built village near Dax in southwestern France shop for groceries, get pampered at the hair salon and enjoy music recitals just like anyone else.<\/p>\n

But this is no ordinary gated community \u2013 each of its 105 permanent residents has Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n

The village offers the care of a nursing home in an environment dressed up as the outside world to soften any sense of painful rupture with the past, preserving a measure of autonomy and daily routine that may help slow the advance of dementia.<\/p>\n

Madeleine Elissalde, 82, was among the first to move in when the village, the first in France and modeled on one in the Netherlands, opened in June. She says she likes the surrounding countryside and the shared house she lives in.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like being at home,\u201d Elissalde said. \u201cWe\u2019re well looked after.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alzheimer\u2019s patients James, 73, and Marie-Christiane walk at the Village Landais Alzheimer site in Dax, France.<\/span>Reuters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For a while after she was diagnosed, Elissalde lived with her daughter before moving in with another of her children. The moving around seemed to compound her memory loss, her family said.<\/p>\n

But now that her daily reference points are more constant, her family say the memory loss has stabilized and she is able to live a more independent life than she would in a nursing home.<\/p>\n

Slowing the disease?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cHer memory loss is less severe,\u201d Elissalde\u2019s grand-daughter Aurore said as the two took shelter from the rain. \u201cShe\u2019s happ<\/a>y, she\u2019s rediscovered her enjoyment of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each resident pays nearly 24,000 euros a year in fees. More than half the 6.7 million euro running costs are subsidized by public authorities.<\/p>\n

Researchers from France\u2019s National Institute of Health and Medical Research are paying close attention. They want to know whether the village model can alter the clinical trajectory of the disease and whether it offers value for money.<\/p>\n

The village has a cafeteria, a library and music room. Its shop provides fresh fruit and vegetables, and flour and chocolate for baking cakes. There are no nurses in white coats.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have a till,\u201d said Christine Surelle, who volunteers in the shop. \u201cOur currency of exchange is smiles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her store is as much a place for human contact as it is a place to obtain essential necessities, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s to maintain their sociability, to maintain a contact with the old world they once knew, to ensure there is no brutal break with the past.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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