1. Designing for dementia
JMT – architect, designer for older people, now full time in research. Chair of residential home
Quality of place to promote well being
The ageing population is one of the great success stories of our times; it is a world wide phenomenon. We should treat it as something to celebrate. More often it is seen as a problem.
Being an architect I am obsessed with buildings. As I see it buildings have an enormous influence on the ageing process - either fro good or for ill. They are blamed (quite rightly) when they don’t fit – we talk of disabling environments. I am interested in making them work to enhance old age.
Judith Torrington
University of Sheffield
School of Architecture
EXTRA CARE HOUSING AND DEMENTIA CONFERENCE
Tuesday 15th November 2005
Fielder Conference Centre Hatfield

2. Formal support network
Person factors
Formal support network
Social network
experiences
meaning
Physical environment
Well-being model
Aspirations

3. 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

4. Design parameters Support for the person Support for old age
Support for cognitive impairment
Privacy
Personalisation
Dignity
Choice
Autonomy
Preservation of functional ability
Support for frailty
Health safety and security
Orientation
Awareness
Normalness
Support for dementia related behaviour

5. Quality of life Low dependency safety & health community comfort
physical support
High dependency
physical support
choice & control
comfort
personal-isation

6. Quality of life
Staff
personalisation
normalness

7. Safety and security

8. Support for activity

9. Finding the way

10. ‘street’

11. Community and society Where people go Patchy take up of services
Local shopping v supermarket
Air travel
market
Community and society

12. Bring me sunshine
Buildings can compensate for more restrictive lifestyles.

13. Light, view, transparency

14. Colour
to camouflage
to highlight

15. Colour soft co-ordinated colour pattern free soothing absence of glare
matt or satin paint finish
pictures of local landmarks

16. 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).

17. Mixed messages

18. Home like

19. Home like? x4

20. Use of buildings

21. Spaces with meaning

22. Formal support network
Person factors
Formal support network
Social network
experiences
meaning
Physical environment
Selection and evaluation tool kits
Aspirations

23. Gradmann Haus Herrmann and Bosch with Demenz Support Stuttgart

24. Johanniterstift, Plochingen remodelled by Demenz Support Stuttgart