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• Google Earth View of Rijksmuseum
• Public Transit
  • 9292 for local Utrecht Travel
    • 9292 is the most used app for public transport in the Netherlands with more than 5 million users.
    • It combines all current train, bus, tram, metro and ferry timetables of all public transport companies in the Netherlands in 1 app.
  • NS
    • City to City Trains within the Netherlands
  • NS International
    • Trains for leaving the Netherlands
    • We used it to go from Utrecht → Belgium

De Hogeweyk: the dementia village (Weesp)

Added 2026-09-25 (#source/ai/claude).

Linnesby-Maria, "Indulgence Is Not the Same as Care"

[A] few years ago I read an article about a dementia home in the Netherlands. The home is actually a village. The entire open-air establishment is designed to feel like — in fact, to be — a village, in which residents live together in ordinary houses with carers, and move freely indoors and out, going to stores and cafes and so forth. (View Highlight)

• What it is: De Hogeweyk in Weesp, near Amsterdam, opened December 2009 on a four-acre site (Wikipedia).
• Scale: 152 residents in 27 houses, about six or seven per house (23 original houses, 4 added in 2018) (official site).
• Houses by way of life: seven lifestyle types, including urban, upper-class Dutch (Goois), trades, Dutch-Indonesian (Indisch), homemakers, cultural and Christian, so residents live among people with familiar routines (Wikipedia).
• The village: a supermarket, a café-restaurant that’s open to the public, a pub, a theatre, a hairdresser, clubs and a town square (official site and Wikipedia).
• Who started it: staff of the Vivium care group. Wikipedia credits Yvonne van Amerongen and Jannette Spiering; the official site names Jannette Spiering and Eloy van Hal.
• Not confirmed: that residents never handle money (the article’s claim), and the often-repeated outcome claims (less medication, more activity), which trace to press coverage rather than a cited study.