Creating Empowering Environments for People with Dementia Addressing Inclusive Design from Homes to Cities

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Taylor & Francis 2024
• Series: Aging and Mental Health Research
• Subjects: Alzheimer's & Dementia; Architectural structure and design; Architecture; built environment; City and town planning: architectural aspects; Civil engineering, surveying and building; Clinical psychology; Dementia; dementia-enabling; dementia-friendly hospital design; dementia-sensitive organizations; design; Diseases; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; empowerment; environmental design knowledge; Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design; general hospitals; Health & Fitness; Health systems and services; hospital design; inclusive adaption; independence; Landscape architecture and design; living environments; MBNH2 Environmental factors; Medical specialties, branches of medicine; Medicine and Nursing; Medicine: general issues; Mental Health; Mental health services; Neurology and clinical neurophysiology; Personal and public health / health education; Psychological methodology; Psychology; Psychotherapy; Public health and preventive medicine; public space; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional and area planning; Research and information: general; Research methods: general; Social services and welfare, criminology; Social welfare and social services; Society and Social Sciences; sociotherapeutic; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; The Arts; The environment; Theory of architecture; urban transportation
• ISBN: 1032543035; 9781040110195; 1040110258; 1040110193; 9781032543031; 9781040110256; 1003416241; 9781003416241
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003416241

This edited volume addresses the environments that exacerbate, exclude, and stigmatise those living with dementia to explore designs and processes that can optimise well-being and independence. Featuring the voices and opinions of people with dementia, the chapters showcase individual homes, special dementia facilities, different forms of care homes, and public spaces, from landscape to urbanism, as examples of how to meet the needs and preferences for those living with dementia now. As a response to a recent Cochrane meta-analysis (2022) which highlighted the problems associated with using traditional, medically orientated evaluative methods for environmental design, this book demonstrates a range of research methods that can be used to inform and investigate good co-design of dementia-enabling environments. Furthermore, the book addresses cultural differences in people’s needs and illustrates past, ongoing, and novel initiatives worldwide. Ultimately, this timely volume focuses on person-centred design that enables empowerment, quality of life, health, and citizenship in people living with dementia. It will be of value to researchers, scholars, and postgraduate students studying gerontology, dementia specifically, and those involved with architecture and the built environment for societal benefit more broadly. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.