The small village, like most in France, has a cafe-restaurant, a hairdresser, a superette and a library.
Neighbours have a cup of coffee and a chat on the terrace, or meet up in the park or at the gym before heading their separate ways home.
But these are no ordinary villagers. Their average age is 79 and they all share a debilitating disease: Alzheimer’s.
Opened in June in the southwestern spa city of Dax, the Village Landais Alzheimer—named after the Landes department in which it is located—hosts 120 people afflicted with the cruel, memory-robbing ailment for which there is no cure.
For each resident, medical care-givers…
