2026-09-21
37 分钟Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers.
I'm Georgina Godwin.
My guest today met through dementia care.
One was a nursing student who, at 21, moved into the locked ward of a care home.
The other had studied law before becoming a documentary filmmaker, drawn to stories
that could change the way society sees people pushed to its margins.
Their first book together, The Housemates, became an international bestseller.
They then travelled through 11 countries across four continents, searching for a better way to live with dementia.
The resulting documentary became the most-watched human interest
film in Dutch cinema history and opened the G20 Health Summit.
Their journey has now become a new book, Human Forever.
Chun Tubes and Jonathan de Jong, welcome to Meet the Writers.
Thank you so much.
Chun, your mother was a psychiatric nurse and caring was part of family life.
What did you understand about her work as a child?
What I understood from her work is that it is really about making a human connection towards people.
In our care system, we very often label and so stigmatise people living with the diagnosis.
And especially in psychiatrists and also when it is about dementia, many people face a stigma.
And by making a human connection, you can break this stigma, which is so badly needed.
And that's what I learned from her.