De Kunst van het Ontmoeten: De invloed van architectuur op de ontmoetingsmomenten van ouderen

The aging population and the policy changes regarding long-term care pose a challenge for dwelling design. Our current way of building is too focused on privacy, comfort, and individualism, which exacerbates loneliness for this vulnerable target group. This graduation project therefore investigated in what way architecture can stimulate the...

The Elderly Movement: Elderly in charge of their own flows in life again

The aging society causes problems on three different scales. For cities in general, for the residential housing for elderly and for people who live (elderly) and ‘work’ (healthcare organizations) inside the buildings. The existing elderly homes as well as public spaces can not accommodate the growing numbers of elderly anymore. Due to this fact...

Design for the senses: For people with dementia

The relation between the graduation topic; designing for dementia, the studio topic; designing for care and the master of Architecture are highly relevant to each other. At this moment we are living in a society where the number of elderly people will increase rapidly in the upcoming years. According to the CBS Population Forecast, the number of...

The role of collectiveness in the living environment of dementia sufferers: To what extent can collectiveness support a neighbourhood in which people with dementia, with a demand for care can live?

Background More and more people have to deal with dementia themselves, in their direct or indirect environment. However, this problem is often not part of everyday life in our society. Our living environment is not designed for the increasing dependence of these people and the problems that they daily face remains often behind closed doors. The...