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Dementia Care: The Little Known ‘Secret’ To Successful Care of Someone Living With a Dementia pt. 2
June 9, 2014
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…
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Dementia Care: The Three Tier Prosthetic Environment
May 23, 2014
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 –…
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