TY - JOUR T1 - Unforgettable Restaurant: helping older people who are living with disability and dementia return to society JF - General Psychiatry JO - Gen Psych DO - 10.1136/gpsych-2021-100657 VL - 34 IS - 6 SP - e100657 AU - Ping Jiang AU - Ting Xu AU - Chen Zhang AU - Jinghong Chen AU - Tao Wang Y1 - 2021/12/01 UR - http://gpsych.bmj.com/content/34/6/e100657.abstract N2 - 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 cumulative number of views for the programme has now exceeded 1.4 billion online.2 3 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. The restaurant’s goal is to change Chinese society’s inherent views on the issues of disability and dementia and to remind the public to focus on a series of issues including the reintegration of older people living with disability and dementia to re-serve others and to rebuild public evaluations regarding them.By the end of 2019, in China, the number of older people living with disability and dementia reached 50 million.4 Figure 1 shows the prevalence of disability for activities of daily living among Chinese people aged 60 years and above.4 Studies have also specifically pointed out that, among all the ways to help groups with disability and dementia, providing job opportunities, continuing education opportunities and even providing art exhibition opportunities are the most important.5 6 Many people believe that once a person is affected by disability and dementia, all their social functions will be lost, and they will never be able to return to society. … ER -