They look like old friends happy to meet in the shade of the arcades, near the gurgling fountain, in the village square. On the bistro table sits a stack of old magazines: " I have Rustica, for Yves, and a whole series of Géo," suggests Florence, bringing mint to the water. Who wants the “South Seas”? And you, Jeannine, have you traveled? The octogenarian comes out of his torpor: " Not so much," she whispers. I went to Dax… ”Except that Yves, Jeannine and the others have been living in Dax for a little over a month, and that they have probably forgotten about it. Affected by Alzheimer's disease, at a more or less advanced stage, they are the first residents of this Landes Alzheimer Village, a unique experiment in France.
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The site, near the city center, is divided into four districts, each with its own atmosphere and color, laid out around a central square, like a typical country house in the South-West. Life, quiet, is organized near a restaurant, a performance hall,
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