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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:
Stress and Dementia Care
We all experience stress. It is the same experience for a person living with dementia as it is for a person without. Here are four strategies that you as a carer, informal or professional, can use to mitigate stress in a person living with dementia:
Nurolight®: sleep, light and dementia
For 18 months our DSDC researchers explored sleep, light and dementia. Our project Nurolight® assessed bright Light therapy – a form of using artificial light to retrain the natural
We asseused sers subjective visual comfort levels using a variety of different lighting conditions with varying levels of illuminance.
New training courses launched at DSDC
Over the past few months, DSDC has used its reputation and connections to develop three new training courses. The aim is to shape the practice, knowledge, and confidence of participants. This will help us in our continued mission to improve and sustain the quality-of-life for people living with dementia and their wider support networks.
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.
Scottish Borders Council works with University of Stirling on dementia-friendly care village
Members from Scottish Borders Council have visited University of Stirling dementia design experts to explore options for the region’s new Tweedbank care village.
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.
EADDAT awards for Mitsukaido Sakura Hospital, Japan
Congratulations to Mitsukaido Sakura Hospital for receiving two awards through DSDC’s formal audit accrediation - Environments for Ageing and Dementia Design Assessment Tool (EADDAT).
20th Anniversary of the Online MSc in Dementia Studies - Save the date
The MSc in Dementia Studies is celebrating 20 years of online delivery. This internationally renowned programme has been developing leaders in dementia care from across disciplines and from around the world for the past two decades and the teaching team and our alumni have much to share and to celebrate.
Trauma informed practice in dementia care
Trauma-informed practice in dementia care is a way of caring for individuals living with dementia that takes into account the possibility that they may have experienced traumatic events in their lives.
What is meaningful activity?
In care we hear the term “meaningful activity” mentioned a lot, but what is it? Even more importantly, how do we make an activity meaningful to each individual?
Gold for Norba Court
Congratulations to Norba Court, London, who have received a Gold Audit Accreditation from DSDC.
Power of Attorney (Scotland)
A Power of Attorney (PAO) is a written legal document giving someone else the authority to act and make decisions on their behalf should they become unable to do so for themselves. All decisions made under POA must be of most benefit to the person.
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!