Residential Care Design

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Secure Dementia Care Home Design Information Resource: A Person-Centred Perspective.

Ministry of Health, 2016 New Zealand

The aim of this resource is to support people involved with the development or major reconfiguration of secure dementia care homes, and to enhance the quality of life of people living in them. It approaches these aims from a person-centred perspective. It is based on current research, consultation with New Zealand stakeholders and international guidelines. This resource focuses on the experience for the person with dementia.

Are We Friendly With Dementia-Friendly Design?

Jude Barback, INsitemagazine, 2017

This article provides some New Zealand examples of the various forms dementia friendly design can take in practice.

Dementia Friendly Environments.

Department of Health and Human Services, Victoria (Au)

This is a comprehensive and informative online resource developed for use in residential aged care facilities.

Dementia Enabling Environments.

Alzheimer’s WA (Au)

The Dementia Enabling Environment Virtual Information Centre provides practical tips, guides, and resources to help make environments more dementia-enabling, including an interactive facility with before-and-after examples of different areas.

Environmental Design in Dementia Care.

AusMed, 2019 (Au)

A design-for-dementia framework requires a shift in how we think about illness. Rather than believing that a person will naturally become more limited as their dementia progresses, we can think about how that person is more limited by their environment than by their illness–put another way, a person is only as restricted as their environment causes them to be. While this article is tied to Australian standards, it covers useful principles.

Environmental Design Resources

Dementia Training Australia (Au)

Dementia Training Australia provides an introductory overview and a series of resources to support those wishing to improve environments for people with dementia. They introduce a systematic way of looking at the built environment and provide a number of tools to guide understanding of what needs to be changed and how to accomplish it.

Environmental Design Resources

Dementia Training Australia (Au)

Dementia Training Australia provides an introductory overview and a series of resources to support those wishing to improve environments for people with dementia. They introduce a systematic way of looking at the built environment and provide a number of tools to guide understanding of what needs to be changed and how to accomplish it.