Another Demansion: Insight into the life of people with Young Onset Dementia and their relatives in order to design a care home facilitating them in their well-being

Dementia is a familiar brain disorder, generally seen as a disease of the elderly and care homes are designed as such. However, also people between 30 and 65 can get dementia, called Young Onset Dementia and are overlooked now in architecture. Due to the different life stage in which the disease occurs, these mainstream facilities do not fit...

Dementia in the Built Environment

Building on Experiences: The Hospital Stakeholder Participation Method

Royal Haskoning BM (healthcare department at Hoofddorp)* operates actively in the healthcare market, designing and consulting within care housing projects. Anticipating changes in the healthcare sector, Royal Haskoning foresees a strategic value that could profit the contractor by involving hospital stakeholders (employees, visitors and patients...