Creating Empowering Environments for People with Dementia

Creating Empowering Environments for People with Dementia

DEMENTIA

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.

Charras, Kevin (editor)
Hogervorst, Eef (editor)
Wallcook, Sarah (editor)
Kuliga, Saskia (editor)
Woods, Bob (editor)

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92412

Taylor & Francis

2025

Charras, Kevin (editor)
Hogervorst, Eef (editor)
Wallcook, Sarah (editor)
Kuliga, Saskia (editor)
Woods, Bob (editor)

PDF

English

Textbooks

DOI 10.4324/9781003416241
ISBN 9781032543031, 9781003416241, 9781040110256, 9781040110195

The environment
Regional and area planning
Environmental science, engineering and technology
Health, Relationships and Personal development
Personal and public health / health education
Psychotherapy
Psychological methodology
Theory of architecture
Mental health services
Neurology and clinical neurophysiology
Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design
City and town planning: architectural aspects
Social work