Creating Empowering Environments for People with Dementia

Kevin Charras is Director at the Living Lab Aging and Vulnerabilities, Department of Geriatrics, University Hospital of Rennes, France.Eef Hogervorst is Professor of Biological Psychology and Director of Dementia Research, Loughborough University, UK.Sarah Wallcook is a Researcher, at the The Stockholm Gerontology Research Centre and affiliated to the Care Research Group, Department of Social Work at Stockholm University, Sweden.Saskia Kuliga is a Postdoctoral Researcher and PI at the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Germany, and affiliated with the Department of Nursing Science, Faculty of Health at the University of Witten/Herdecke in Witten, Germany.Bob Woods is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology of Older People at Bangor University, UK, and former clinical psychologist specialising in dementia care.

• Prologue Design for dementia: 50 years onPart 1. Setting the scene: History and underlying design mainstreams and philosophiesChapter 1. The implicit use of theoretical models should be made explicit in dementia inclusive designChapter 2. Creating Homes for Individuals living with Dementia: The Past, The Present and The FutureChapter 3. Advances in research and practice on environmental design of care facilities for people living with dementiaPart 2 People with dementia are central to the design processChapter 4. The voice of people with dementia at the core of environmental designChapter 5. The use of virtual reality to support participatory design processes in environmental design for cognitive changeChapter 6. Improving housing decisions for and with people with dementia: a co-design approachPart 3 Dementia friendly neighbourhoodsChapter 7. How can public organizations, transport systems and spaces be made more dementia friendly? Findings from Participatory Health Research and ArchitectureChapter 8. Rural and urban transportation and technology use: what needs to be considered?Chapter 9. Toilets: a key feature for inclusive design. Newbuild and refurbishmentChapter 10. Selected innovative research projects of early career researchers: 10.1. Project 1. Dementia-Enabling Neighbourhoods - Participatory development of dementia-enabling neighbourhoods in Bremen10.2. Project 2. Inclusive co-research with people living with dementia about wayfinding in their living environment and neighbourhoodPart 4 General hospital designChapter 11. Dementia-Friendly Hospitals: Current State and Future DirectionsChapter 12. Architectural Design Guidance for General Hospitals: Ways to implement proven concepts and to accommodate future challengesPart 5 Care home designChapter 13. Translating environmental design knowledge into practice: progress and challengesChapter 14. Sociotherapeutic Living environments in long-term care organisationsChapter 15. Dementia-friendly design: toward minimizing spatial disorientation in residential care homesChapter 16. Green care farms and other innovative settingsChapter 17. Selected innovative research projects II:17.1. Project 1. The German Environmental Audit Tool in nursing homes17.2. Project 2. Decision-making in Care Homes: The impact of the environment on people living with dementia sharing their everyday decisionsEpilogue