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Wednesday, February 4, 2026
As reported by Jacqueline Kehoe, Yahoo! creators
America’s first ‘dementia village’ is coming to Wisconsin, and it’s nothing like traditional memory care.
Imagine a neighborhood where someone living with dementia can walk to a café, tend a garden, or simply sit on a porch watching the world go by. Not a hospital corridor lined with handrails, but an actual community with homes, greenery, and the gentle rhythms of everyday life.
That’s the vision taking shape in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, where Agrace is building the nation’s first Hogeweyk-style dementia village — a revolutionary approach that’s already transformed memory care across Europe, Australia, China, and Canada.
Monday, February 2, 2026
As reported by Senior Housing News, Holly Vossel
A Wisconsin-based nonprofit hospice, Agrace, is launching a new memory care initiative that includes a village for residents inspired by the Hogeweyk model in The Netherlands.
The hospice and palliative care provider recently announced the project, which will be dubbed as the Ellen & Peter Johnson Dementia Village at Agrace. Fueled with the Johnsons’ donation of $7 million, construction of the new dementia village will begin in spring 2026 and is slated to complete by fall 2027.
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
As reported by Environments for Aging
Agrace (Madison, Wis.), a nonprofit provider of hospice, palliative, and dementia care, expects to break ground this spring on the Ellen & Peter Johnson Dementia Village on its Madison campus, according to a news release.
The $40 million project is inspired by the Netherlands’ Hogeweyk Dementia Village and marks the first Hogeweyk-inspired dementia care community of its kind in the U.S., according to the provider.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
As reported by Erin McGroarty, Cap Times
With a $7 million donation from a Madison couple, a Dane County hospice company plans to build a new kind of memory care facility in Fitchburg with the goal of centering quality of life for those with dementia.
The “dementia village” will be the first of its kind in the United States, based on a model established in the Netherlands that prioritizes independence and autonomy for those living with diminished memory. The model steers away from hospital-like memory care units with strict security measures and, instead, will allow residents to move freely about the community and make independent decisions on how to go about their day.
Monday, January 26, 2026
As reported by The Monroe Times
Agrace, a leading nonprofit provider of hospice care, palliative care, and dementia care services, this week announced plans to build the Ellen & Peter Johnson Dementia Village at Agrace, the first Hogeweyk-inspired dementia care community of its kind in the United States. The revolutionary residential village will provide a contrast to institutional memory care by offering small households and person-centered neighborhood living designed to restore dignity and autonomy to people with dementia.
Friday, January 23, 2026
As reported by Holly Vossel, Hospice News
Wisconsin-based Agrace is launching a new dementia care initiative that will include a village for patients to live in as their conditions progress, as well as an onsite general inpatient hospice unit.
The hospice and palliative care provider recently announced the project, which will be dubbed as the Ellen & Peter Johnson Dementia Village at Agrace. Fueled with the Johnsons’ donation of $7 million, construction of the new dementia village will begin in spring 2026 and is slated to complete by fall 2027.
Thursday, January 22, 2026
As reported by Kathleen Steele Gaivin, McKnights Senior Living
Nonprofit dementia, hospice and palliative care service provider Agrace announced this week that it plans to build what it says is the first Hogeweyk-inspired dementia village of its kind in the United States, in Madison, WI. The $40 million project, to be known as the Ellen & Peter Johnson Dementia Village at Agrace, is expected to break ground this spring.
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
As reported by Wisconsin Health News
Agrace, a hospice, palliative and dementia care provider, plans to build a dementia village at its Madison campus.
The village differs from institutional memory care by offering small households and neighborhood living for those with dementia.
“It will look and feel very, very much like a home,” Agrace CEO Lynne Sexten said.
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