Careful Spaces topic

Memory care environments

Environments that work with dementia rather than against it: cues, retreat, and honest design.

2 articles

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.