Passing the Light of Peace for 2017...


Passing the Light of 
Peace, Love, Health and Prosperity
To you for 2017
From Sr. Antonina Avitabile 

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Passing the Light to you for 2017


Passing the Light of 
Peace, Love, Health and Prosperity
To you for 2017
From Sr. Antonina Avitabile 

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Dementia Village πŸ‡³πŸ‡± Help Patients as the Dutch Do

We Should Help Dementia Patients
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The Way the Dutch Do...
CNN's World's Untold Stories: Dementia Village
Dr. Sanjay Gupta offers a look inside Hogewey's community supermarket, where residents shop with their caretakers.

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 'Dementia Village'
Has Restaurant, Grocery, etc.
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A new village in Europe is open only to people suffering from Dementia.CNN Chief Medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta takes you inside this incredible new way of treating the disorder.MORE: Gupta: 'Dementia village' is one of the most humane things I've seen For more information please visit http://www.hlntv.com/
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How “Dementia Villages” Work - Vox
Can miniature towns make dementia care more humane?
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On any given day at the Hogeweyk, you can see locals wandering the streets, going out for coffee, folding laundry, and tending gardens, all surrounded by lush outdoor space. Located in Weesp, a Dutch city just outside Amsterdam, the Hogeweyk is a planned village intentionally designed for one purpose: maximizing quality of life for its 180 residents — all of whom have severe dementia.
Inside, nurses and doctors don’t wear uniforms, meals are cooked inside the home with groceries from the village grocery store, and other Weesp residents are free to dine at the on-site restaurant. These design choices aim to de-institutionalize senior living, blurring the line between what typically happens in front of residents and what happens out of sight.
The style of care that this facility pioneered has been nicknamed the “dementia village,” and it’s been emulated across the world. It’s architecturally organized around choice; by giving residents a high level of freedom, its designers hope to minimize issues associated with dementia like aggression, confusion, and wandering. 

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Drinking Games And Jigsaws
A Unique Dutch Retirement Home
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The "Dementia Village" that's Redefining Elder Care
Yvonne van Amerongen

How would you prefer to spend the last years of your life: in a sterile, hospital-like institution or in a village with a supermarket, pub, theater and park within easy walking distance? The answer seems obvious now, but when Yvonne van Amerongen helped develop the groundbreaking Hogeweyk dementia care center in Amsterdam 25 years ago, it was seen as a risky break from tradition. Journey with van Amerongen to Hogeweyk and get a glimpse at what a reimagined nursing home based on freedom, meaning and social life could look like.
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In Memoriam - Girolamo Giovanni Cuppari

Girolamo Giovanni Cuppari


December 12, 1934 – November 10, 2016

Girolamo Giovanni Cuppari M.D., J.D., of Kenilworth, NJ, passed away peacefully on Thursday, November 10, 2016, at the age of 81.

He was born in Spilinga, Italy to Rosa and Michele Cuppari. Girolamo grew up in Panaia until he left to attend boarding school in Messina, Italy at San Luigi’s. He graduated San Luigi with high academic honors and received a scholarship to attend the Medical School of La Sapienza in Rome. While at the university, he also accumulated credits in the field of law. Soon after earning his M.D. Cum Laude from La Sapienza, Girolamo went on to earn a J.D. from the University of Palermo.

Upon completing his education, Girolamo left to join his parents in New Jersey. He trained at the Jersey City Medical Center in rheumatology and later on began working at Cabrini Medical Center in New York City, where he became the Chief Medical Officer and a Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York Medical College.Girolamo had an illustrious career in medicine, including numerous publications and honors.

In particular, the Vatican honored him as a Knight of the Order of San Gregorio Magno for his medical service to Cardinal Casaroli.

He is survived by his beloved wife, Alessandra, and his three loving children, Rosa Isabella, Michael Leonard, and Nicholas Francis.

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