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When Henry Field was in his 20s, he spent seven years travelling the world on a bicycle.
That sort of independence and freedom seemed a world away when he was diagnosed with dementia, even though his wife Liz Field "could not imagine him in a nursing home".
"For him, little room, no activities … I think he would have really struggled and I think the worst of the dementia mental symptoms would have come on," she said.
The 82-year-old artist has found a home in a new specialised dementia care facility in Port Macquarie on the NSW Mid North Coast.
He is among the first residents to move into the St Agnes Parish's Emmaus Dementia Village inspired by a Dutch model of elderly care, The Hogeweyk.