It Is Not Over Yet

[Plays April 29 through May 9 in virtual cinema as part of the 2021 Hot Docs Festival in Canada; for information, log on to https://www.hotdocs.ca/p/hot-docs-festival.] Louise Detlefsen's engaging, touching, insightful, inspirational, 94-minute documentary that follows the daily life of eleven elderly Danish residents dealing with various forms of dementia in the Dagmarsminde nursing home in Denmark and the dedicated, compassionate, well-trained staff, including founding nurse May Bjerre Eiby, who employs more holistic and "up-close-and-personal" methods introduced by Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) and Danish philosopher Knud Ejler Løgstrup (1935-1981) to treat and care for their charges so that they live with dignity and happiness in a more joyful, restful healthcare environment rather than strictly custodial care.
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