Environmental design for dementia care - towards more meaningful experiences through design
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 245210
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.maturitas.2019.06.011
- Title of journal
- Maturitas
- Article number
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- First page
- 10
- Volume
- 128
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0378-5122
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/623199/
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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C - Design
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This article demonstrates how insights from environmental psychology and advances in technology can inform a user-centred multi-disciplinary design approach in the dementia context. Dementia is generally considered one of the most pressing societal issues now and in years to come. Although insights from different disciplines have contributed to a better understanding of dementia and subsequent development of interventions targeting dementia symptoms, there is a lack of integration of insights from these different perspectives for the purposes of design for dementia. To address this, this article first presents a brief meta-review of reviews from the fields of assistive technology for dementia care and healing environments research, after which gaps and opportunities for a multidisciplinary design approach are identified. To illustrate what such an approach could look like, two exploratory case studies are presented in which technology-enhanced prototypes were implemented at a Dutch care centre for people with dementia. The research for this article was conducted as part of the MinD project ‘Designing for people with dementia: designing for mindful self-empowerment and social engagement’, which was led by Niedderer. The project was recognised internationally through a European H2020 MSCA RISE grant (2016-2020, GA691001, €531,000). The article provided the theoretical foundations for one of two strands of the project, which was concerned with designing environments that can support people with dementia with social engagement, by providing a multidisciplinary design approach to support the project’s design activities. The benefit of this approach is that it not only provides a means to optimizing existing environments and enhance ease of living, but that it can also lead to novel solutions for challenges, which people with dementia face on a day-to-day basis, and thus contribute to quality of life. Publication in Maturitas underpins the multi-disciplinary impact of this paper.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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