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Dementia friendly residential care design

 

Secure dementia care home design information resource: A person-centred perspective
Author:                                    Ministry of Health, 2016 (NZ)
Description:
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. 
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Dementia Design Checklist
Author:                                    IHC, 2018 (NZ)
Description:
This document is part of a Design Audit and Survey Toolkit intended for use across a range of property types. It was initially developed for use in Scotland in health-care premises where people with dementia are likely to attend as patients or visitors, including rest homes and hospital-care facilities. It has been adapted for use in group homes and other settings managed by IDEA Services in New Zealand. 
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Are we friendly with dementia-friendly design?
Author:                                    Jude Barback, INsitemagazine, 2017 (NZ)
Description:
This article provides some New Zealand examples of the various forms dementia friendly design can take in practice.
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Dementia friendly environments
Author:
Department of Health and Human Services, Victoria (Au)
Description:
This is a comprehensive and informative online resource developed for use in residential aged care facilities.
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Environmental design in dementia care
Author:
AusMed, 2019 (AU)
Description:
A design-for-dementia framework requires a change in the way 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.
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Dementia enabling environments
Author:
Alzheimer's WA (Au)
Description:
The Dementia Enabling Environment Virtual Information Centre provides practical tips, guides and resources to help make the environments more dementia enabling, including an interactive facility with before and after examples of different areas, as well as a range of resources..
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Environmental Design Resources
Author:
Dementia Training Australia (AU)
Description:
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 an understanding of what needs to be changed, and how the change might be accomplished.
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Assessment Tool 
Author:
The Dementia Service Development Centre, Stirling University, 2022 (UK)
Description:
The Environments for Ageing and Dementia Design Assessment Tool (EADDAT) is a valuable resource for influencers of the built environment, health and social care practitioners and individuals supporting a loved one with dementia. It can be used for existing, new-build and refurbishment projects across a range of settings
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