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Designing dementia-friendly neighbourhoods
— helping people with dementia to get out and about | | Author(s) | Lynne Mitchell, Elizabeth Burton |
| Journal title | Journal of Integrated Care, vol 18, issue 6, December 2010 |
| Pages | pp 11-18 |
| Source | http://www.pierprofessional.com/jicflyer/index.htm. |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Design ; Well being. |
| Annotation | This paper summarises research funded by the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) EQUAL (Extending Quality of Life) programme from 2000-2003 to examine how neighbourhoods could be made more dementia-friendly. Design for dementia generally focuses on the internal environment of dementia care homes and facilities, but most people with dementia live at home. The participants were 20 older people with Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores from 9 to 28, and a control group of 25 older people without dementia. The research involved semi-structured conversational interviews, accompanied walks, and a measurement of the design features of the participants' local neighbourhoods. The research defined dementia-friendly neighbourhoods as welcoming, safe, easy and enjoyable for people with dementia and others to access, visit, use and find their way around. It identified six design principles: familiarity, legibility, distinctiveness, accessibility, comfort and safety. A number of recommendations for designing and adapting neighbourhoods to be dementia-friendly arose from the research. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-110905005 A |
| Classmark | EA: RH: 33: D:F:5HH |
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