Unforgettable Restaurant: helping older people who are living with disability and dementia return to society

摘要

On 25 January 2021,a special restaurant named the‘Unforgettable Restaurant’was opened in a prime locality of Shanghai,China;it emerged from a popular publicly broadcast welfare TV programme of the same name.1 This restaurant’s waiters are older patients with cognitive impairment,and the cumu-lative number of views for the programme has now exceeded 1.4 billion online.23 After the show was broadcast for two consecutive years,the filming party decided to open the restaurant officially,and the waiting duties were assumed by older people living with disability and dementia.