This farm just outside Oslo serves as a day care for people with dementia. It helps give them something to care for, too.

This farm just outside Oslo serves as a day care for people with dementia. It helps give them something to care for, too.

Courtesy Julia Hotz

Henriette Bringsjord grew up on a farm outside Oslo and spent her childhood raising chickens, harvesting eggs, and feeding cows. But 20 years ago, after her parents noticed how hard it was for people with dementia to work a normal job and enjoy a normal social life, they repurposed the farm as a "care farm."

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