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Paul Smith
Dementia Care: Principles of Design for Dementia
The Dementia Development Centre at Stirling University has suggested 10 basic principles of design to aid persons with dementia cope...
Dementia Care: Designing to Care – The Built Environment
In this blog I return to my structured series on the building blocks for excellence in dementia care. We began...
In Defence of Dementia Care in Care Homes
Care homes took another shocking blow this week with the expose of a small number of individuals, acting independently, in...
Dementia Care: The Vital Importance of the Built Environment
Most buildings are designed to meet a rather specific requirement of use. Care homes and hospitals are designed to fulfil...
Dementia Care: Life History
A programme of care for an individual living with dementia would have life history as need number one – this...
The Question No One Wants to Ask
The most asked question from families of those living with an advanced dementia (and often the one they really want...
Dementia Care: Therapeutic Interventions 2
Therapeutic interventions Interventions aimed at creating a consistent sense of identity You can help create a consistent sense of identity within the...
Dementia Care: Therapeutic Interventions
Interventions aimed at helping to establish emotional security You can help establish emotional security within the person living with a dementia...
Dementia Care: Life Story Work
Building blocks of a programme approach to therapeutic care design Working with the person not the disease is the holy grail...
Dementia Care: Life History & Life Story
The first building block for good care for those living with a dementia is to know their story, preserve it...