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Glendale Cottage: The Harmless House
Join us as we explore Glendale Cottage: The Harmless House. This video captures the aspirations and design of the first DSDC EADDAT Gold Awarded Domestic Environment.
Navigating the Frontiers of Dementia: ADI Conference 2024
The 36th Global Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease International took place in Kraków, Poland, last week. Experts around the world came together under the theme of ‘Dementia: Insights. Innovations. Inspirations’ and shared information on achievements, innovations, and best practices in dementia research, care, and policy.
DSDC Senior Dementia Consultant, Dave Wilson-Wynne, attended and represented the University of Stirling and our Centre. Here is what he said about the experience:
Bowbrook Dementia Specialist Residential Care Home Achieves DSDC Gold Award for Dementia-Friendly Design
We are all stakeholders in ageing – especially as people live longer. In a remarkable step towards a more dementia-friendly society, Bowbrook Residential Care Home has achieved the DSDC Gold Award.
Here are five reasons why Bowbrook is at the forefront of dementia-friendly design:
DSDC Chief Architect receives Churchill Fellowship to travel to Fukuoka, Japan
In 2019, DSDC Chief Architect Lesley Palmer received a Churchill Fellowship with the purpose to study, record, and catalogue the built environment and healthy ageing projects in Fukuoka, Japan.
Lesley’s Fellowship spotlights the importance of international collaboration when working with ageing and dementia. Through her travels, we are shown a new perspective on dementia friendly design and reminded why different cultures may need different solutions.
Dementia design and the use of trompe l’oeil
Trompe l’oeil (pronounced tromp-LOY) is an artistic technique not often seen in use nowadays except bizarrely in care homes, which are the least appropriate environment to use this technique.
How to self-certify with EADDAT Tier 2
Using DSDC’s Environments for Ageing and Dementia Design Assessment Tool (EADDAT) Tier 2 to self-certify is a great way to understand how your space is supporting an ageing population and people living with dementia. Tier 2 of EADDAT is the intermediate level, so it’s more in depth than Tier 1, but you don’t need any training prior to use, and it is suitable for any environment.
How to self-certify with EADDAT Tier 1
Using DSDC’s Environments for Ageing and Dementia Design Assessment Tool (EADDAT) Tier 1 to self-certify is a great way to understand how your space is supporting an ageing population and people living with dementia. Tier 1 of EADDAT is the entry level, so it’s an easily accessible place to start and suitable for any environment.
Dementia-friendly Pub Call
DSD are looking for pubs everywhere to become more dementia-friendly and have launched a new tool to support this.
The Future of Design
Research tells us that age-friendly environments can help foster healthy and active ageing, by building and maintaining cognitive capacities across the course of our lives.
Environments for Ageing and Dementia Design Assessment Tool (EADDAT) Launches
The Environments for Ageing and Dementia Design Assessment Tool (EADDAT) has now launched!
Scotland’s Housing Festival 2022
Lesley Palmer spoke at this year’s CIH Scotland’s Housing Festival around findings for the dementia and housing sub-group.
Environments for ageing and dementia
Research tells us that age-friendly environments can help foster healthy and active ageing by building and maintaining cognitive capacities across the course of our lives.
Signage & Wayfinding
The legibility of an environment is closely related to the visual information that is provided. For people with dementia, it is particularly important that the design of the signage not only highlights useful information but also, to avoid confusion, reduces the extent of non-critical and unhelpful information.
One Small Change
At DSDC we believe every effort to improve quality of life for people living with dementia should be celebrated, no matter how big or small.
Designing Homes for Healthy Cognitive Ageing
What we want and need is always changing, and those changes can become more noticeable as we get older. The DesHCA Project is exploring how people can adapt their homes to make them more supportive as they age.
Design training in Japan
Last month DSDC delivered design training for Tokyu E-Life Design Inc. & Mediva Inc., in Japan. The design training followed DSDC input into two projects developed by the Japanese organisations.
Products for dementia
World population is ageing and with that the profile of the 'end user' is changing too. Data from the World Population Prospects report (2017) estimates that the number of people over 60 will more than double by 2050; representing nearly a quarter of the world's population. Most notable is the increase in the oldest old (+80 years), which is expected to triple by 2050.
Smart technologies in dementia care – future opportunities and challenges
Over the last several years, increasing attention is being paid to the potential that smart technologies can have in helping people with dementia.
Evidence Based Design - Tapping into Research
The DSDC aims to ensure that the Iris Murdoch Building is regularly updated reflect the evidence base. Most recently a range dementia-friendly taps have been installed in our main male and female toilets.