Filter Posts:
Dementia Care: Principles of Design for Dementia
May 19, 2014
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…
Read more
Dementia Care: Designing to Care – The Built Environment
May 9, 2014
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…
Read more
In Defence of Dementia Care in Care Homes
May 2, 2014
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…
Read more
Dementia Care: The Vital Importance of the Built Environment
April 25, 2014
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…
Read more
Dementia Care: Life History
April 16, 2014
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…
Read more
The Question No One Wants to Ask
April 10, 2014
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 –…
Read more
Dementia Care: Therapeutic Interventions 2
April 4, 2014
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…
Read more
Dementia Care: Therapeutic Interventions
March 28, 2014
Interventions aimed at helping to establish emotional security You can help establish emotional security within the person living with a dementia by keeping the following in mind. I have provided…
Read more