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Human Forever is a film documenting a global quest to understand how dementia care is delivered outside the Netherlands.

24-year-old humanitarian activist Teun Toebes has a mission: to improve the quality of life of people living with dementia. He has been living in the closed ward of a nursing home for years when he decides to take this mission to the next level.  In an adventurous three-year journey across four continents and through 11 countries, Teun takes you on a disarming and impressive quest around the world in which he looks for answers for the future.

 

We want to show a more nuanced picture of dementia, told or shown by people with dementia themselves because in a world where the talk is now mainly about loss, there is still a world to be won.

Teun Toebes

Together with his good friend and filmmaker Jonathan de Jong, he explores how dementia is dealt with in other countries and what we can learn from each other to make the future more beautiful and inclusive. As the number of people with dementia doubles in the next 20 years, this quest is not a question, but a necessity.

 

Panel discussion, moderated by Dr Toral Gathani, includes:

  • Jonathan de Jong, the film director
  • Associate Professor Sarah Floud, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Oxford Population Health
  • Dr Anya Topiwala, Big Data Institute, Oxford Population Health

The Oxford Population Health Festival of Global Health is led by Toral Gathani, Sarah Lewington, Hannah Calkin and Graham Bagley. Please contact us if you have any questions or comments or complete the online form to be added to the mailing list. The Festival of Global Health is financially supported by a grant awarded to Toral Gathani and Sarah Lewington from the Van Houten Fund at the University of Oxford.

Useful links

Humanising Care for Older People Living with Dementia: Teun Toebes in conversation with Khalid Ali

Lancet Commission on Dementia 2024