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22.05.12
A collaboration between architects, designers and researchers will make the latest building designs for people with dementia available to aged care operators, reports Darragh O Keeffe.
The leading cause of poorly designed built environments for people living with dementia isn’t a lack of established best practice, on the contrary there is an abundance of such guidelines. Rather the research and information often isn’t utilised or incorporated by the managers in charge of building new facilities or redevelopments.
Research at home and abroad has identified 10 key principles to designing supportive environments for people with dementia (see below), but the problem is getting that information out to aged care managers and operators.
For this reason a well known authority on dementia design, Professor Richard Fleming, is collaborating with Alzheimer’s Australia WA and other leaders in the field to translate the research into best-practice guidelines for architects and builders.
Source: Aged Care INsite