Human Forever
Inspiring documentary in which young care professional Teun Toebes travels the world to investigate how dementia is being dealt with elsewhere.
Inspiring documentary in which young care professional Teun Toebes travels the world to investigate how dementia is being dealt with elsewhere.
Teun Toebes is twenty-four years old, in perfect health and lives in the closed ward of a nursing home. He is on a mission to improve the quality of life for people with dementia. After years, he decides to take his work to the next level: together with his good friend and filmmaker Jonathan de Jong, he embarks on a world tour to see how dementia is dealt with in other countries. Together they visit eleven countries on four continents.
Teun’s quest can now be called a necessity; the number of people with dementia is predicted to double in the next twenty years. He advocates a more humane treatment of people with dementia and calls for an end to locking people with dementia in institutions. ‘To look differently is to do differently. If we really see people with dementia as human beings, all the rules and protocols we have used to set up the system will change,’ Toebes said in a recent interview.