Dementia

Dementia acts as a stressor to the internal system of an affected individual by its alteration in perceptions of the external environment and therefore the individual’s reactions to it. External…

We all think we know a little about stress. We have all been stressed and many of us will have experienced distress, but if you are reading this blog it…

This week we take a second look at a concept introduced during the past series of blogs and pursued more deeply in last week’s blog. We have asked you to…

This week we take a look at a concept introduced during the past series of blogs, and which we have asked you to seriously consider: environmental pressure – in other…

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…