Te Hoahoa i Nga Taiao Tautoko: Designing Supportive Environments
Experts shared evidence-based approaches and practical solutions to create environments that honour dignity, support independence, and enhance well-being for those navigating the dementia journey. Attendees learned how mindful design choices—from lighting and wayfinding to sensory elements and safer walking—created spaces where people with dementia thrived, not just existed.
Dementia Enabling Design
Sara McCunnie: Presentation to Dementia Mate Wareware Network Hui May 2025
Sara is a dementia mate wareware design expert and registered architect. She specialises in developing innovative principles of dementia design. After 12 years as the senior architect at Ryman, she has now started her own practice as the “Village Architect.”
The Power of Daylight
Jane Waterhouse: Presentation to Dementia Mate Wareware Network Hui May 2025
Sara is a dementia mate wareware design expert and registered architect. She specialises in developing innovative principles of dementia design. After 12 years as the senior architect at Ryman, she has now started her own practice as the “Village Architect.”
Not All Who Wander are Lost
Sharyn Creighton: Presentation to Dementia Mate Wareware Network Hui May 2025
Sharyn works in Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury as a community occupational therapist within the older persons mental health service, and as a dementia educator for the Walking in Another’s Shoes programme.
Dementia Enabling Design
Sara McCunnie: Presentation to Dementia Mate Wareware Network Hui May 2025
Sara is a dementia mate wareware design expert and registered architect. She specialises in developing innovative principles of dementia design. After 12 years as the senior architect at Ryman, she has now started her own practice as the “Village Architect.”
The Power of Daylight
Jane Waterhouse: Presentation to Dementia Mate Wareware Network Hui May 2025
Sara is a dementia mate wareware design expert and registered architect. She specialises in developing innovative principles of dementia design. After 12 years as the senior architect at Ryman, she has now started her own practice as the “Village Architect.”
Not All Who Wander are Lost
Sharyn Creighton: Presentation to Dementia Mate Wareware Network Hui May 2025
Sharyn works in Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury as a community occupational therapist within the older persons mental health service, and as a dementia educator for the Walking in Another’s Shoes programme.