Dementia day care as a green addition to the city: An urban take on the farm-based day care concept supporting people with early stage dementia

The growing number of dementia patients in the Netherlands has many consequences. Many people with early stage dementia live at home and are cared for by relatives. This creates a lot of pressure and stress for both the patient and the informal caregiver. A well-known and popular solution to this problem is farm-based day care, which is...

Upscaling Dementia Architecture: A study about aging in place with dementia

Despite the predicted increase in the number of dementia patients, the Dutch government has opted against building any extra nursing facilities in the future. Individuals, families, healthcare institutions, and society as a whole may suffer as a result of persons with dementia remaining in their homes or neighborhoods that are unsuitable for...

Prevention of Cognitive Impairments Through Architectural Design: Graduation Studio Designing for Health & Care ’Towards a Healthy and Inclusive Living Environment’

This paper has argued that the absence of inter-generational contact and a deficit of care-taking in communities leads to the societal exclusion of the elderly and increases the development of diseases such as Alzheimer’s, dementia and depression. Dementia is a pressing problem of our time. The number of people with dementia is constantly rising...

Personalized and Adaptive Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction with a Novel Fuzzy Logic Control and Reinforcement Learning-Based Paradigm: Master Thesis Report

An aging population puts a pressure on health-care workers working with dementia patients globally. A potential solution is to provide care with Socially Assistive Robots (SARs), i.e. robots who help people through social interaction. However, for effective care these SARs must be able to personalize their behavior to individual patients and...

Technologies in Long-Term Care and Nursing Homes

Long-term care is defined as a variety of services designed to meet a person’s health and personal care needs which help people live as independently and safely as possible when they can no longer perform everyday activities on their own. Depending on the needs and social context of the patient, long-term care can be provided in different...

Dementia in the Built Environment

The Smart Teddy Project: Design of a data acquisition system to monitor seniors with dementia and detect dangerous situations

The amount of people dealing with dementia is rising globally. The amount of caretakers is, however, not. Therefore, technological aids are needed to support people dealing with dementia and relieve the stress on their caretakers. Current solutions provide tracking of people with dementia. Also, different robots exist that provide people with...

Know-me: A toolkit for designing personalised dementia care

Personalisation is a crucial element in providing person-centred care for people with de-mentia. This paper presents the development and evaluation of a design toolkit to facilitate the work of designers and healthcare professionals in personalising dementia care. This toolkit, named “Know-me”, was grounded in the findings of Ergonomics in...

Design of a data supported care planning process

BPSD (Behaviour and psychological symptoms of Dementia) is a progressive symptom infecting PwD’s well-being and cause stress to care givers. It results from unmet needs in different aspects. A personalized care plan is demanding to be made iteratively to meeting the individual needs of the each patient. It is made by the care team and guides the...

Dutch care environments for people with dementia: impressions from the perspectives of an architect and a gerontologist

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss Dutch innovative care environments for older people, including those living with dementia, from the perspectives or an architect and a social gerontologist. Design/methodology/approach: The authors visited three care environments for older people, each offering an innovative approach to living...

Redefining the meaning of Rubroek-Dementia living in Rotterdam

The theme of the project is about implying care into the city and improve the quality of existing neighborhood. Tramendous care is put into the target group dementia people to build up a new and diverse life in the context of existing communinty. The hofje typology is exlored and developed in the project to creat different meanings of outdoor...