1st Edition
Creating Empowering Environments for People with Dementia Addressing Inclusive Design from Homes to Cities
This edited volume addresses the environments that exacerbate, exclude, and stigmatise those living with dementia to explore designs and processes that can optimise well-being and independence.
Featuring the voices and opinions of people with dementia, the chapters showcase individual homes, special dementia facilities, different forms of care homes and public spaces, from landscape to urbanism, as examples of how to meet the needs and preferences for those living with dementia now. As a response to a recent Cochrane meta-analysis (2022) which highlighted the problems associated with using traditional, medically orientated evaluative methods for environmental design, this book demonstrates a range of research methods that can be used to inform and investigate good co-design of dementia-enabling environments. Furthermore, the book addresses cultural differences in people’s needs and illustrates past, ongoing and novel initiatives worldwide.
Ultimately, this timely volume focuses on person-centred design that enables empowerment, quality of life, health and citizenship in people living with dementia. It will be of value to researchers, scholars, and postgraduate students studying gerontology, dementia specifically, and those involved with architecture and the built environment for societal benefit more broadly.
Prologue Design for dementia: 50 years on Bob Woods
Part 1. Setting the scene: History and underlying design mainstreams and philosophies
Chapter 1. The implicit use of theoretical models should be made explicit in dementia inclusive design Mainsha Jain, Eef Hogervorst
Chapter 2. Creating Homes for Individuals living with Dementia: The Past, The Present and The Future Margaret Calkins
Chapter 3. Advances in research and practice on environmental design of care facilities for people living with dementia Kevin Charras
Part 2 People with dementia are central to the design process
Chapter 4. The voice of people with dementia at the core of environmental design Emily Ong, Martin Robertson, Dennis Frost, Habib Chaudhury, Richard Fleming
Chapter 5. The use of virtual reality to support participatory design processes in environmental design for cognitive change Lesley Palmer, Martin Quirke, Junjie Huang, Judith Phillips
Chapter 6. Improving housing decisions for and with people with dementia: a co-design approach Jodi Sturge, Louise Meijering
Part 3 Dementia friendly neighbourhoods
Chapter 7. How can public organizations, transport systems and spaces be made more dementia friendly? Findings from Participatory Health Research and Architecture Verena Tatzer, Barbara Pichler, Elisabeth Reitinger, Gesine Marquardt, Katharina Heimerl
Chapter 8. Rural and urban transportation and technology use: what needs to be considered? Sarah Wallcook, Camilla Malinowsky, Anna Brorsson
Chapter 9. Toilets: a key feature for inclusive design. Newbuild and refurbishment Gill Mathews, Mary Marshall, Heather Wilkinson
Chapter 10. Selected innovative research projects of early career researchers:
10.1. Project 1. Dementia-Enabling Neighbourhoods - Participatory development of dementia-enabling neighbourhoods in Bremen Janissa Altona, Henrik Wiegelmann, Emily Mena, Julia Misonow, Christoph Teves, Benjamin Schüz, Karin Wolf-Ostermann
10.2. Project 2. Inclusive co-research with people living with dementia about wayfinding in their living environment and neighbourhood Saskia Kuliga, Martina Roes, Jim Mann
Part 4 General hospital design
Chapter 11. Dementia-Friendly Hospitals: Current State and Future Directions Suzanne Timmons, Emma O'Shea
Chapter 12. Architectural Design Guidance for General Hospitals: Ways to implement proven concepts and to accommodate future challenges Gesine Marquardt, Kathrin Bueter
Part 5 Care home design
Chapter 13. Translating environmental design knowledge into practice: progress and challenges. Richard Fleming, John Zeisel
Chapter 14. Sociotherapeutic Living environments in long-term care organisations Debby Gerritsen, Hanneke Noordam, Hanneke Nijsten, Hanneke Donkers
Chapter 15. Dementia-friendly design: toward minimizing spatial disorientation in residential care homes Elena Carbone, Laura Miola, Erika Borella, Francesca Pazzaglia
Chapter 16. Green care farms and other innovative settings Hilde Verbeek, Ingeborg Pederson, Bram de Boer, Simone de Bruin
Chapter 17. Selected innovative research projects II:
17.1. Project 1. The German Environmental Audit Tool in nursing homes Anne Fahsold, Bernhard
17.2. Project 2. Decision-making in Care Homes: The impact of the environment on people living with dementia sharing their everyday decisions Rachel Daly
Epilogue. Eef Hogervorst, Tri Budi Rahardjo
Biography
Kevin Charras is Director, at the Living Lab Aging and Vulnerabilities, Department of Geriatrics, University Hospital of Rennes, France.
Eef Hogervorst is Professor of Biological Psychology and Director of Dementia Research, Loughborough University, UK.
Sarah Wallcook is a Researcher, at the The Stockholm Gerontology Research Centre, and affiliated to the Care Research Group, Department of Social Work, at Stockholm University, Sweden.
Saskia Kuliga is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Germany and the Department of Nursing Science, Faculty of Health, at the University of Witten/Herdecke in Witten, Germany.
Bob Woods is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology of Older People, at Bangor University, UK, and former clinical psychologist specialising in dementia care.
