Article Category: Environment/Design

A sensory garden created by, with and for residents

Gill Melling describes the Elder Flowers project, to develop a sensory garden for a care home, reflecting the expressed needs, wishes and opinions of residents and including their own work Author/s: Gill Melling For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....

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New thinking

Berlin: Tom dening reports on a conference drawing together recent research Author/s: Tom Dening For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....

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Architecture with care

Marian Pallister describes how architect Gareth Hoskins applied a common sense approach to a hospital ward redesign Author/s: Marian Pallister For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....

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There’s something fresh in the state of Denmark

Helen Leslie travelled to see Danish dementia care at first hand. What she saw – with its pervasive focus on providing a warm and friendly environment – led her to reflect on how dementia care is provided here. Author/s: Helen Leslie For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The...

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More than carpets and chintz – creating a place for living

In this fourth of her series on design for dementia care, Margaret Calkins discusses the many ways in which the physical environment can help a care setting feel more like home. Author/s: Margaret Calkins For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you...

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How colour throws light on design in dementia care

In this third of her series on design for dementia care, Margaret Calkins explores the use of colour and lighting in dementia care settings, including what is known about their effects on behaviour and mood. Author/s: Margaret Calkins For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive...

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Designing for dining: the secret of happier mealtimes

In the first of a new series on design for dementia, Margaret Calkins and Jennifer Brush describe how one woman’s unhappy mealtime experiences led to an appraisal of the whole dining room environment Author/s: Margaret Calkins, Jennifer Brush For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive...

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Experience-based approach to respite care training

Jane Jeffs and colleagues in Poole realised that the best way to train people is to help them experience for themselves the environment they are creating for service users. Here she explains how community and residential care workers came together for five days to do just that Author/s: Jane Jeffs For the full article please...

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Design a better bathroom: relaxing and comforting

Bathing doesn’t have to be a battle – with a little thought and adaptation, a bathroom can become a calming, soothing and comforting environment, as Margaret Calkins explains in this second of her series on design for dementia care Author/s: Margaret Calkins For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right....

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A systematic assessment of assistive technology

ENABLE is a three-year project running across four countries to assess the role of assistive technology in helping the people with dementia with everyday activities and develop new devices – Inger Hagen, Torhild Holthe, Petrina Duff, Suzanne Cahill, Jane Gilliard, Roger Orpwood, Paivi Topo and Sidsel Bjorneby explain in the second part of our series...

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