A Norwegian granny in retirement, Marianne Rogstad is a lifetime student. For fifty years, she worked as a hotel clerk in Switzerland, where she was surrounded by people from different cultures and languages.
However, Rogstad was diagnosed with dementia after she returned to Norway. She quickly lost those sources of pleasure and grew lonely. Before she started working at Impulssenter, a tiny “care farm” outside of Oslo, that is. According to Henreitte Bringsjord, whose parents established the care farm, the farm’s name comes from the way it fulfills people’s desires to work and interact with others.
“My parents enjoyed working on farms, and they considered how difficult it is for those suffering from dementia to quit their jobs and lose their social lives.
