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Designing for dementia

Designing for dementia. Judith Torrington University of Sheffield School of Architecture EXTRA CARE HOUSING AND DEMENTIA CONFERENCE Tuesday 15th November 2005 Fielder Conference Centre Hatfield. Person factors. Formal support network. meaning. experiences. Social network.

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Designing for dementia

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  1. Designing for dementia Judith Torrington University of Sheffield School of Architecture EXTRA CARE HOUSING AND DEMENTIA CONFERENCE Tuesday 15th November 2005 Fielder Conference Centre Hatfield

  2. Person factors Formal supportnetwork meaning experiences Social network Physical environment Well-being model Aspirations

  3. Everyone is a house with four rooms – a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into each room every day, if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person Rumer Godden

  4. Design parameters

  5. Quality of life Low dependency safety & health community comfort physical support High dependency physical support choice & control comfort personal-isation

  6. Quality of life Staff personalisation normalness

  7. Safety and security

  8. Support for activity

  9. Finding the way

  10. ‘street’

  11. Community and society

  12. Bring me sunshine

  13. Light, view, transparency

  14. Colour to camouflage to highlight

  15. Colour soft co-ordinated colour pattern free soothing absence of glare matt or satin paint finish pictures of local landmarks

  16. Meaning of space It is clear that some residents do not feel ‘at home’ because they worry about paying for their meals when they go into the dining room ..she goes in for her dinner, her tea. “I can’t have any. I haven’t paid for it. I haven’t got any money to pay for it;” they might have done it for 70, 80 years …And now all of a sudden it’s all done for them……(relative).

  17. Mixed messages

  18. Home like

  19. Home like? x4

  20. Use of buildings

  21. Spaces with meaning

  22. Person factors Formal supportnetwork meaning experiences Social network Physical environment Selection and evaluation tool kits Aspirations

  23. Gradmann HausHerrmann and Bosch with Demenz Support Stuttgart

  24. Johanniterstift, Plochingenremodelled by Demenz Support Stuttgart

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