A spokesperson for VisitEngland said: "Visitors with dementia face a number of challenges, including having the confidence to travel, communicating in noisy environments and becoming disorientated when navigating new places or long routes." By becoming dementia-friendly, businesses will be able to hel...
The article reports that two faculty members in Design and Environmental Analysis, Franklin Becker and Paul Eshelman, are developing a new family visit program using a combination of design and digital images intended to make family visits more rewarding for both family members and Alzheimer's reside...
The Prime Minister's Dementia Challenge, as one example, has set ambitious targets to train 1 million people to be ‘dementia friends’2 to raise awareness and understanding of dementia in communities. A core strand of that challenge is to encourage businesses to become dementia-friendly (DF) ...
People are telling you to take care of yourself but they aren’t doing anything to help you take care of yourself. They haven’t offered to stay with your loved one or run any of your errands. But they said things like, “Honey, you really need to think more about your own health....
There are multiple projects and innovative practices that have adapted this general framework to their local context [5,6]. The main aim of dementia-friendly cities and communities is to improve the quality of life of people with dementia and their relatives through integration and inclusion of pe...
However, studies describing dementia-friendly qualities related specifically to people living with YOD and their needs in the outdoor environment seems to be lacking. 1.5. Evidence-Based Design Evidence-based design (EBD) has the potential to provide practitioners with the knowledge needed to develop...
The 'Dementia Friendly Places' app will be used to rate cafes, restaurants, shops and other public places anywhere in the world and the things that will be rated and seen as important will be chosen by the people who support the app. ...
Landmarks must be unique to aid successful navigation (Stankiewicz and Kalia2007a; Viaene et al.2014; Strickrodt et al.1936). Common objects or environmental cues that we can encounter in different places can be confusing and disorienting because they cannot be used to unambiguously identify a...
Our nursing and dementia care homes in Burton-on-Trent, Tipton, and Sheffield are more than just places to live. They are flourishing, friendly communities focusing on what individuals can do rather than what they can’t. We strive to find the best people to work in our care homes, so ...
Even though one of its main research areas is language acquisition, the study of LS is far more than that, taking in LS in a range of diverse contexts such as academic discourse communities (Duff, 2010), workplaces (Kleifgen, 2013), and health care institutions (Martin, 2015), to name...