Designing for dementia
Judith TorringtonUniversity of SheffieldSchool of Architecture
EXTRA CARE HOUSING AND DEMENTIA CONFERENCETuesday 15th November 2005
Fielder Conference Centre Hatfield
Person factors
Formal support network
Social network
Physical environment
Aspirations
experiences meaning
Well-being model
Everyone is a house with four rooms – a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into each room every day, if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person
Rumer Godden
Design parameters
Support for the person
Support for old age
Support for cognitive impairment
PrivacyPersonalisationDignityChoiceAutonomy
Preservation of functional abilitySupport for frailtyHealth safety and security
OrientationAwarenessNormalnessSupport for dementia related behaviour
safety & health
community
comfort
physical support
physical support
choice & control
comfort
personal-isation
Quality of life
High dependency
Low dependency
personalisation
normalness
Quality of life
Staff
Safety and security
Support for activity
Finding the way
‘street’
Community and society
Bring me sunshine
Light, view, transparency
Colour
to highlight
to camouflage
Coloursoft co-ordinated colour
pattern free
soothing
absence of glare
matt or satin paint finish
pictures of local landmarks
Meaning of space
It is clear that some residents do not feel ‘at home’ because they worry about paying for their meals when they go into the dining room
..she goes in for her dinner, her tea. “I can’t have any. I haven’t paid for it. I haven’t got any money to pay for it;” they might have done it for 70, 80 years …And now all of a sudden it’s all done for them……(relative).
Mixed messages
Home like
Home like?
x4
Use of buildings
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type and size of building
large nursingsocial/sheffcaresmall/conversion
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70
60
50
40
30
20
10
CHOIBLD
CHOIUSE
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Spaces with meaning
Person factors
Formal support network
Social network
Physical environment
Aspirations
experiences meaning
Selection and evaluation tool kits
Gradmann HausHerrmann and Bosch with Demenz Support
Stuttgart
Johanniterstift, Plochingenremodelled by Demenz Support Stuttgart
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