Creating Empowering Environments for People with Dementia

Prologue Design for dementia: 50 years on

Part 1. Setting the scene: History and underlying design mainstreams and philosophies

Chapter 1. The implicit use of theoretical models should be made explicit in dementia inclusive design

Chapter 2. Creating Homes for Individuals living with Dementia: The Past, The Present and The Future

Chapter 3. Advances in research and practice on environmental design of care facilities for people living with dementia

Part 2 People with dementia are central to the design process

Chapter 4. The voice of people with dementia at the core of environmental design

Chapter 5. The use of virtual reality to support participatory design processes in environmental design for cognitive change

Chapter 6. Improving housing decisions for and with people with dementia: a co-design approach

Part 3 Dementia friendly neighbourhoods

Chapter 7. How can public organizations, transport systems and spaces be made more dementia friendly? Findings from Participatory Health Research and Architecture

Chapter 8. Rural and urban transportation and technology use: what needs to be considered?

Chapter 9. Toilets: a key feature for inclusive design. Newbuild and refurbishment

Chapter 10. Selected innovative research projects of early career researchers:

10.1. Project 1. Dementia-Enabling Neighbourhoods - Participatory development of dementia-enabling neighbourhoods in Bremen

10.2. Project 2. Inclusive co-research with people living with dementia about wayfinding in their living environment and neighbourhood

Part 4 General hospital design

Chapter 11. Dementia-Friendly Hospitals: Current State and Future Directions

Chapter 12. Architectural Design Guidance for General Hospitals: Ways to implement proven concepts and to accommodate future challenges

Part 5 Care home design

Chapter 13. Translating environmental design knowledge into practice: progress and challenges

Chapter 14. Sociotherapeutic Living environments in long-term care organisations

Chapter 15. Dementia-friendly design: toward minimizing spatial disorientation in residential care homes

Chapter 16. Green care farms and other innovative settings

Chapter 17. Selected innovative research projects II:

17.1. Project 1. The German Environmental Audit Tool in nursing homes

17.2. Project 2. Decision-making in Care Homes: The impact of the environment on people living with dementia sharing their everyday decisions

Epilogue