Age-friendly built environment

HW Chau, E Jamei - Encyclopedia, 2021 - mdpi.com
Definition Age-friendly built environments have been promoted by the World Health
Organisation (WHO, Geneva, Switzerland) under the Global Age-friendly Cities (AFC) …

Outdoor wayfinding in dementia

B Sheehan, E Burton, L Mitchell - Dementia, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
We aimed in this study to investigate (1) outdoor wayfinding performance of people with
dementia; and (2) which features of the outdoor built environment are used in wayfinding by …

Decreasing spatial disorientation in care-home settings: How psychology can guide the development of dementia friendly design guidelines

M O'Malley, A Innes, JM Wiener - Dementia, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Alzheimer's disease results in marked declines in navigation skills that are particularly
pronounced in unfamiliar environments. However, many people with Alzheimer's disease …

'All the corridors are the same': a qualitative study of the orientation experiences and design preferences of UK older adults living in a communal retirement …

M O'MALLEY, A Innes, S Muir, JM Wiener - Ageing & Society, 2018 - cambridge.org
Environments need to be designed such that they support successful orientation for older
adults and those with dementia who often experience marked difficulties in their orientation …

Involving persons with dementia in the evaluation of outdoor environments

P Van Schaik, A Martyr, T Blackman… - CyberPsychology & …, 2008 - liebertpub.com
Using virtual reality (VR), we examined the barriers to and facilitators of functioning outdoors
in persons with dementia (PwD) and investigated the generalizability of findings in VR to the …

Site selection assessment of vacant campus space transforming into daily care centers for the aged

YK Juan, YC Hsu, YP Chang - International Journal of Strategic Property …, 2021 - jest.vgtu.lt
Taiwan is facing the dual severe social problems of an aging population coupled with a low
birth rate. Aging has given rise to an urgent need for future long-term care and daytime care …

'We go for a homely feel… not the clinical dementia side': care home managers' experiences of supporting residents with dementia to orientate and navigate care …

M Heward, A Adams, B Hicks, J Wiener - Ageing & Society, 2022 - cambridge.org
Living with dementia can adversely affect people's spatial (orientation and navigation) and
reality (time, date and place) orientation, which can detrimentally impact on their sense of …

A Step Too Far? Designing Dementia‐Friendly Neighborhoods

L Mitchell - Wellbeing: A complete reference guide, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
There are currently 800,000 people with dementia in the United Kingdom, most of whom
wish to live in their own homes for as long as possible. But if the neighborhood is not …

[引用][C] Inclusive Urban Design: streets for life

E Burton - 2006 - Butterworth-Heinemann

[图书][B] Out and about: A sensory ethnographic study of therapeutic landscape experiences of people living with dementia in the wider community

RQB Mossabir - 2018 - search.proquest.com
Whilst ageing in place is considered important for a healthier and a better quality of life for
older people, there is yet a dearth of evidence on how older people with dementia negotiate …