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Design For Dementia
Written by an architect and gerontologist, this comprehensive book leads the reader through each behavioral, cognitive, and activity of daily living issue that might be encountered. It is full of ideas and products for hiding and rummaging, wandering, incontinence, and much more. Offering simple answers to difficult problems, it explains how modifications, environmental strategies, or products can contribute to the caregiving process.
The authors describe and analyze 20 environments for people with dementia, including day care and respite care centers, community-based homes, innovative long-term care facilities, and other housing options. They identify current and emerging trends, address key issues of importance common to all such environments, and employ a rigorous critical framework that allows them to pinpoint the positive and negative aspects of various design and programmatic solutions.
Dementia is defined as a global decline of cognitive functioning in clear consciousness. With the "graying" of the U.S. population, the syndrome is being seen with increasing frequency. In this book the authors bring together a group of medical authorities -- including many who have done seminal research in this field -- to discuss dementing disorders and explain their differential diagnosis. The chapters present data from historical current literature as well as from the authors' clinical experiences.
This book offers design and healthcare professionals a complete guide to the essentials needed to design, develop, and implement supportive environments for the elderly and people with Alzheimer's disease. The material is easily adapted for use in home or healthcare settings.
This pioneering guidebook's original and creative philosophy promotes independence and competence, even among the most minimally functioning patients. Clearly written and illustrated with helpful diagrams and photographs, there is a wealth of low-cost solutions to design problems -- many of which can be implemented without major structural changes.
Design Innovations for Aging and Alzheimer's Elizabeth Brawley 376 pages Hardcover
As our knowledge of alzheimer's grows, so does our need to influence interior design. This book discusses recent changes in interior design for the aging population. Among the issues covered are use of gardens and sustainable design. Many photographs demonstrate these issues.
People with dementia live in environments ranging from their own homes to community-based group homes and long-term care facilities. This book addresses key issues for the planning and modification of these settings. Equally useful to caregivers, nursing home and adult care planners, administrators, architects, and interior designers, the authors have set forth practical design principles linked to specific therapeutic goals.
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