Dementia

To recap from last week’s blog and to summarise thoughts expressed over the last three environment specific blogs: If each area of the care environment is designed to compensate for…

The Dementia Development Centre at Stirling University has suggested 10 basic principles of design to aid persons with dementia cope in their living environment, but there has been guidance on…

In this blog I return to my structured series on the building blocks for excellence in dementia care. We began to introduce the necessity of good, adaptive design two editions…

Care homes took another shocking blow this week with the expose of a small number of individuals, acting independently, in a small number of care homes, shown by the BBC…

Most buildings are designed to meet a rather specific requirement of use. Care homes and hospitals are designed to fulfil an institutional purpose, a purpose which does not enrich life…

A programme of care for an individual living with dementia would have life history as need number one – this is your touchstone – know the persons linear history. What…

The most asked question from families of those living with an advanced dementia (and often the one they really want to ask) is ‘if Mam or Dad has this –…

Therapeutic interventions Interventions aimed at creating a consistent sense of identity You can help create a consistent sense of identity within the person living with a dementia by keeping the…