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Dementia Design Info
www.DementiaDesignInfo.org was created to help designers,
providers, and others interested in creating supportive shared residential care
settings for people with dementia. It is based on an extensive review of the literature,
and organizes the
information into an easily searchable compendium of practical information. The site is still
under construction. At
this time, it only contains information about bedrooms, toilet rooms and
bathing areas, with just over 300 records in it. Other spaces will be added in
the future.
Users to the site can search by space (e.g., bedroom,
bathing area) and/or user need (e.g., privacy, safety). Search results are individual records
structured to link specific environmental features or characteristics with
behavioral or organizational outcomes, and each record indicates whether the
outcomes are validated by research, reflect expert consensus or are
unverified. Many records also include
both images and original references for the data.
There are also a few case studies, which provide more
in-depth information about a single site. At this time, these case studies were
all part of the original research project that was the genesis for this
website.
We invite you to browse through the site, and give us
comments and feedback—either suggestions for how to improve the site, or for
more information we should include. Click on the Contact Us button to send us a
general email with comments and suggestions. There are specific pages for
submitting new information to the website, which we will review and incorporate
as appropriate.
This website is dedicated to M. Powell Lawton, as it
was his vision and dedication to improving environments for people with
dementia that gave this project its start.
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