Human Forever
2023 film
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Sep 10, 2026
Helen PiddHOST
They shared meals together, secret beers, a bathroom.
Helen PiddHOST
During more than three years living in the homes, Teun became convinced there is a better way to care, and in a new book and documentary, Human Forever, he explains how.
Helen PiddHOST
From The Guardian, I'm Helen Pidgeon.
Helen PiddHOST
Today in Focus: Should We Give People With Dementia More and Not Less Freedom? [gentle music] Welcome to Today in Focus, Teun.
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Helen PiddHOST
Which looks at the different ways people with dementia are cared for around the world.
Jonathan de JongGUEST
How do other countries deal with dementia, and what can we learn from them?
Helen PiddHOST
The film is called Human Forever.
Helen PiddHOST
There's an accompanying book, which is out soon in the UK.
Samantha HeronHOST
One of the things were, you know, I guess the name of the memory care units or dementia care units and, you know, how we sort of start to do things slightly differently in how we are treating people and their carers and their family units who are living with dementia.
Samantha HeronHOST
And I know that you were part of the recent film screening around Australia with Toon Tobes and Human Forever and this idea year of not not forgetting not letting the diagnosis be the thing that is what we're talking about and actually remembering the human behind behind that diagnosis um and also just even you know both of you even mentioning so early on just how different some of the signs are That unusual behaviour, etc.
Samantha HeronHOST
Katja, I'm interested because you actually also work in the space of young people developing dementia at a younger age as well.
Samantha HeronHOST
Tell me a little bit about how you got into younger onset dementia and what it can look like for somebody who encounters or starts to develop dementia in their 40s or 50s rather than what we might typically think it's something that's just happening with older age.
EmilyHOST
Um, when thinking about the, the nursing home piece, I, I...
EmilyHOST
Reminds me of, I guess it was two years ago at our conference, the documentary by Tuan.
Willem MyburghGUEST
Yes.
EmilyHOST
And really getting to see, um, I believe South Africa was one of the, the countries that he, he-
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Willem MyburghGUEST
People need to be m- much more aware of, you know, that loneliness, that boredom, that helplessness.
Willem MyburghGUEST
It's, it's a, it's an epidemic.
Willem MyburghGUEST
Um, a- and we saw in that, you know, in the documentary Human Forever, it's, it's a global epidemic.
EmilyHOST
Mm-hmm.