Careful Spaces topic
Memory care environments
Environments that work with dementia rather than against it: cues, retreat, and honest design.
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Dementia-Friendly Wayfinding: Contrast, Landmarks, and Honest CuesPeople living with dementia navigate by what they can see, recognize, and trust. Contrast principles, landmarks over signage, and why the environment should tell the truth.
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Designing for Sundowning: The Building's Job in the Hardest HoursLate afternoon concentrates agitation in memory care. How light, space, energy, and staffing geography can be arranged against the four-o'clock wave: an environmental strategy for sundowning.