1st Edition

Creating Empowering Environments for People with Dementia Addressing Inclusive Design from Homes to Cities

258 Pages 17 Color & 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 17 Color & 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Prologue: design for dementia: 50 years on BOB WOODS

 

Part 1. Setting the scene: history and underlying design mainstreams and philosophies

Chapter 1. Use of theoretical models in dementia-inclusive design MANISHA JAIN AND 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 AND 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 AND JUDITH PHILLIPS

Chapter 6. Improving housing decisions for and with people with dementia: a co-design approach JODI STURGE AND 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 C. TATZER, BARBARA PICHLER, ELISABETH REITINGER, GESINE MARQUARDT AND KATHARINA HEIMERL

Chapter 8. Rural and urban transportation and technology use: what needs to be considered? SARAH WALLCOOK, CAMILLA MALINOWSKY AND ANNA BRORSSON

Chapter 9. Toilets: a key feature for inclusive design. Newbuild and refurbishment GILL MATHEWS, MARY MARSHALL AND HEATHER WILKINSON

Chapter 10. Selected innovative research projects I

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 AND 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 AND JIM MANN

Part 4 General hospital design

Chapter 11. Dementia-friendly hospitals: current state and future directions SUZANNE TIMMONS AND EMMA O’SHEA

Chapter 12. Architectural design guidance for general hospitals: ways to implement proven concepts and to accommodate future challenges GESINE MARQUARDT AND KATHRIN BUETER

 

Part 5 Care home design

Chapter 13. Translating environmental design knowledge into practice: progress and challenges. RICHARD FLEMING AND JOHN ZEISEL

Chapter 14. Sociotherapeutic living environments in long-term care organisations DEBBY GERRITSEN, HANNEKE NOORDAM, HANNEKE NIJSTEN AND HANNEKE DONKERS

Chapter 15. Dementia-friendly design: towards minimizing spatial disorientation in residential care homes ELENA CARBONE, LAURA MIOLA, ERIKA BORELLA AND FRANCESCA PAZZAGLIA

Chapter 16. Green care farms and other innovative settings HILDE VERBEEK, INGEBORG PEDERSEN, BRAM DE BOER AND SIMONE DE BRUIN

Chapter 17. Selected innovative research projects II

17.1. Project 1. the German Environmental Audit Tool in nursing homes ANNE FAHSOLD AND BERNHARD HOLLE

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 AND 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 and PI at the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Germany, and affiliated with 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.