Background Dementia friendly initiatives share similarities with the age-friendly movement in
a focus on active engagement and creating a good quality of life for older adults. Dementia …

Research incorporating more robust study designs to evaluate dementia-friendly
communities is needed. Being dementia-friendly in healthcare settings requires …

Many older people, both with and without dementia, eventually move from their familiar
home environments into unfamiliar surroundings, such as sheltered housing or care homes …

Based on a targeted literature review, this vision paper emphasizes the importance of
dementia-sensitive built space. The article specifically focuses on supporting spatial …

Objectives: To perform a systematic study about the contribution of architecture and interior
design researchers in studying the effect of physical environment on mental disorders …

The World Health Organization (WHO) calls dementia the leading cause of dependency and
disability among older adults. People living with dementia (PLWD) are more likely to reside …

Salient landmarks enhance route learning. We hypothesised that semantically salient
nostalgic landmarks would improve route learning compared to non-nostalgic landmarks. In …

This study undertakes a spatial analysis of an Australian aged care setting where residents
receive person-centred support in a specially-designed home-like environment. Focus …

Wayfinding capabilities stem from interactions between cognitive processes and
environmental elements. Previous studies that have attempted to improve human wayfinding …

Spatial disorientation is one of the earliest symptoms in Alzheimer's disease (AD)(Coughlan
et al., 2018), and has been increasingly measured using novel virtual reality (VR) paradigms …