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Project Brief

A Virtual Nature Experience Reduces Anxiety and Agitation in People with Dementia
May 2018 ∘ Project Brief

Learn about the capacity of a virtual nature experience to significantly reduce stress, reduce anxiety, and increase pleasure, and treatment strategies that provide hope of reducing pharmacologic interventions and of improving quality of life for individuals with dementia and the staff who care for them.
Interview

Designing to Sustain Energy & Ability Throughout Aging: Strategic Implications and Opportunities, an interview with Lorraine Hiatt, PhD
February 2017 ∘ Interview

Learn about: why the imagined and built environment needs to take a broader, more deliberate role in supporting aging patients, the tools that designers and providers must use to create supportive physical and social spaces, and information that visionaries, collaborators, and patients can share to streamline the design process.
Executive Summary

Designing for Age-Related Cognitive Changes
March 2015 ∘ Executive Summary

Learn about: cognitive changes that occur with normal aging, the definition and stages of Alzheimer’s disease, and design interventions that can reduce negative behaviors characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease.