1st Edition
Creating Empowering Environments for People with Dementia Addressing Inclusive Design from Homes to Cities
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.






