Design for Dementia Guide
Today, I attended Barcelona Design Week’s session Facing New Challenges Through Design. There, I learned about the work of Rama Gheerawo, Deputy Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre, at the Royal College of Art .
Rama has been presenting user-centered design projects, specially in relation to elderly. In that respect, I’d like to recommend to download the publication Design for Dementia: improving dining and bedroom environments in care homes [PDF].
[The guide] explores how better product and environment design can improve quality of life for care home residents with dementia. The design ideas developed are a practical response to the challenge of congnitive decline and can be retrofitted to existing care homes as well as applied to new developments.
