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Research across studies interviewing residents living with dementia in residential aged care on their attitude towards harm minimisation and dementia deceit shows that they are ok with it if it is for their well-being and they can see the white lie. #harmminimization #dementiadeceit #hamburgers #whopper #murals #IDC24! So, if people are stressing at a locked exit door is it less harmful to disguise the door? If a stripe over the door, or painting the door the same colour as the wall still feels institutional, then is a mural better? If the mural disguises the door but its design confuses people, then it is causing an issue. Thus, food, and design for harm mimimization needs to be well-considered through science and deep knowledge and not just concocted for profits sake less we affect harm. Well done HammondCare for your SmartBurger! https://lnkd.in/g9HAiX2T

Excited to be supporting #hammondcare and the #thedementiacentre at their International Dementia Conference 2024! #IDC2024! We've just uploaded 2 presentations: - Slideshow Talk: "Innovating Residential Person-Centered Care" which is the culmination of my 16 years of work and learning lots of science! - Poster: "Designing Re-created NORCs- Aged Care Communities of the Future'' which evolved from being invited to contribute in the government's Reimagining Where We Live Design Ideas Competition with Alan Cubbon and Shilo de Bono which we took to the next level with world expert on NORCs, QUT Professor Bo XIA Thank you to our team Klaus Veil Bo XIA Peter Jensen Tracie Rodwell-Dunne Tara Quirke Robert Sayegh for all your hard work. Big thank you also to Kelvin Bissett, Kathy Lindsay at Hammond Care and Alexander Jacobs from Hello Leaders for sharing our story in the media. https://lnkd.in/eBwHWkJ

Proud to share HammondCare's story on our art technologies after they identified us as one of their most innovative presenters at their upcoming International Dementia Conference. My partner A/Professor Klaus Veil and I will be speaking on ''Innovating residential person-centred care through dementia-friendly art.'' Enjoy and thank you again to HammondCare for the story! #internationaldementiaconference #dementia #speakers Peter Jensen Bo XIA Jo Caughtry Tracie Rodwell-Dunne Klaus Veil Tara Quirke Laurie Buys Luke Howarth MP Lilli B. Kelvin Bissett Kathy Lindsay https://lnkd.in/gmRt3Zc3

Connecting the dots between NORCs, Culture, Art, Community, Healthcare, Well-being and Policymaking. #dementia #culture #art #decorating #dehogeweyk #architecture #model #innovation First. What are NORCS? Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities like villages of old with 40% being 65+. RSL Lifecare says, “Our research shows a remarkable 40% of Baby Boomers are still working, an extraordinary 61% expect to fund their own retirement and a mere 7% are currently drawing on any formal aged care support, making them a resilient and independent generation, consistent with their rebellious youth. Remarkably, they are also more optimistic and in better health than their children. A surprising 91% of Baby Boomers believe their overall well-being is good, very good or excellent, while 84% rate their physical health on the same scale and an overwhelming 89% believe they’re in good mental health. In comparison, almost a quarter of their Millennial children live with a mental disorder, including anxiety, affective disorder such as depression or bipolar, or substance use disorders. '' So, what is the difference affecting design for Aged Care providers and Policy Makers, for NORCs and existing facilities? Boomers, unlike their children, are not technology-obsessed at the expense of their health, well-being and sociology. As our collaborator Professor Bo XIA's Empirical Review Study on NORCs proved, Boomers desire to live within ethnic and age-diverse communities with visiting healthcare and cultural activities: NORCs. In this podcast, NORCs are clearly supported by the Director of Public Policy at Alzheimer’s Los Angeles, Barbra Mclendon. Providers facility design innovation could be inspired by Eloy van Hal, founder of #thehogeweyk, who finds that artwork, decor, food, music and lifestyle cultures are more important at De Hogeweyk than the built environment. Designer Katie Swenson, Senior Principal of MASS Design Group, who focuses on Sustainable Community Development, advises strategies that keep people safe from infection and active through micro-communities that even allow elders to care for children. Working across diverse socio-economic demographics, Katie defines one meaning of home as being the platform for the rest of our lives. with gathering spaces with cues for commonality that are well-ventilated to help prevent disease transmissions and improve health outcomes. In conclusion, ageing in the community is preferable to ageing alone at home. Yet, how can providers create commonality? Susan Magsamen, Executive Director, International Arts + Mind Lab, Pedersen Brain Science Institute, Johns Hopkins University says: Art creates Culture. Culture creates Community. Community creates Humanity. This is what we do. We remediate whole facilities off the floor plan and, with economist Klaus Veil, we are working on policy change to affect recreating NORCs, or ReNORCs. Get in touch to learn more. Alan Cubbon Jan Golembiewski David Pond Kate Todd

Dining rooms are a major focus of Aged Care providers since the Taskforce mentione facilities that haven't been updated for 20+ years. #agedcare #design #cafemurals #dementia #art #innovation Cafe vibes need to be homey because some residents living with dementia in residential care might think they cannot eat if they do not have their purses on them—and they are in an upmarket hotel. This can lead to weight loss. Luminescent blue, red and bright limey green is the visible and lasting colours people with dementia can clearly see. As such, a 70-percentile colour contrast is ideal. Some people can no longer perceive colour, so tonal contrast is important. Therefore, you can see how each of the mural's elements contrasts against its blue background. A real menu board for daily specials provides added theming an a reading opportunity. Many people with dementia may decide they can no longer read, yet most can. People may also go back to a native language and yet retain the ability to read English. So, reading cues that are non-institutional is important. Here, we have created a cooling and homey cafe vibe for this, one of three facilities in total for our coastal North Queensland client. This community has a strong Italian presence, hence the Mediterranean theme and blue wall colour. What do you think about the design?

We are pitching abstracts to Dementia Lab conference in Portugal on Non-pharmacological interventions through design for dementia. This is some of the global wish list: - Deinstitutionalises and creates a homelike environment - Conceals clinical features - Reduces stresses through camoflague and room door wayfinding - Replaces facility signage with beautiful imagery signs - Reduces drug intake. Creates dopamine that some antipsychotics deplete. Fights depression - Provides gentle reminiscence therapy for OTs - Self driven activities for elders - Gives resiedents back their independance and privacy - Non-verbal conversation cues for in-room resident-staff communications and patient info - Vastly improves wayfinding through saliency - Saves staff significant time and therefore providers costs - Helps providers with sales - Creates better press! Such is the power of science-driven design art finishes for dementia by Tailored Artworks. So, we are submiting abstracts to the Dementia Lab for presentation in Portugal next year. Conference organisers looking for interesting speakers with innovations for strengths-based environmental design feel free to PM us. #dementia #innovation #art #bluecare #dementiaconference #agedcaredesign #agedcaredesign Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission Arcare Aged Care Aged Care Insite Retirement and Aged Care Summit @dementia Jason Burton Klaus Veil Bo XIA Dementia Australia Dementia Training Australia The Dementia Centre Dementia Support Australia International Dementia Conference Dementia Forum X

Nurse Nahida Akter says, prevention is better than a cure for Alzheimers and it is in Cognitive Reserve where she wants to see the work done. #alzheimers #cognitivereserve #environmentaldesign #art This Elevate Eldercare podcast introduces us to 3 amazing women at the frontier of thought-leadership for dementia nursing. Nahida is on the money. With still no cure in sight, cases increasing, and more proof that diet, lifestyle an environment are largely to blame, there is hope. The study, Impoverished Environment, Cognition, Aging and Dementia Volker, Scherder 2011, summarizes: • Animals, especially old animals, living in an impoverished environment perform worse and show a faster decline in cognitive functioning compared to animals in a standard environment. This decline in cognitive functioning is, however, reversible after three months in a standard or enriched environment.  •  Sedentary and lonely people have worse cognitive functions and show a faster cognitive decline than physically and socially active people. •  Most community-dwelling older people do not meet the recommended levels of physical activity. •  Cognitive performances are worsened when people move into institutions due to their impoverished environments; residents spend excessive time in bed, show mainly sedentary behaviour, and often have feelings of loneliness. •  Physical restraints are associated with cognitive decline.  Similarly, the study, Cognitive Reserve in Ageing and Alzheimer's Disease. Stern Y. Lancet Neurol. 2012 concludes, ''While the original observations concern...education or occupational...recent studies..into lifestyle factors, cognitively stimulating behaviours, personality factors... suggest that contributions to reserve come from multiple sources, and that reserve is not a fixed entity but can change across the lifespan depending on exposures and behaviours.'...'' Consideration of the concept of CR can be useful in the clinical setting... From a practical point of view...integrated into a practitioner’s diagnostic formulation. Higher CR is associated with more rapid decline in patients with Alzheimer's disease (author's note- due to depression)... consideration of cognitive and brain reserve moves us to a more systems-based approach...Since the brain both passively and actively attempts to cope with brain changes or pathology (author's note: due to neuroplasticity), it is important to understand the factors that contribute to this resilience.' Practioners looking into Cognitive Reserve in Residential Aged Care environments for people living with dementia will discover that art is a way forward. But not just any art - because science is required. Tailored Artworks, science-driven designed art for dementia, can help build and restore cognitive reserve as wayfinding landmarks and signage systems that bring residents and nurses stress relief by enriching their environmental design. PM for more. https://lnkd.in/gVC69ZWH

True Doors®are Celebrating 10 years and your the winners! Get a discount, reduce your resident's wayfing stress and improve their environment. #dementia #doorwraps #truedoors #wayfinding #design #saliency True Doors began in 2014 as a social art project about feeling at home. This year we celebrate our 10th anniversary of enabling dignified dementia design personalisation. Today, we invite you to celebrate with us! ·        Request a quote to lock in prices to year-end. ·        Order before 15 May for a 15% discount on the quote. ·        Order before 10 June to benefit from a 10% discount. CONTACT US TO REQUEST QUOTE NOW Rahzeb Choudhury Peter McCloud Jason Turik Archie Ray Rafe Morris Sandra Hills OAM Kate Todd Tina Grey Maryann Curry GAICD Sara Manley Sally D. Cara Aydın Jelmer Hoekstra Kaitlyn Keating Fleur Hannen Victoria Priest Elaine McNaughton Mark Osborn Josh Stack-Masula Raylene Liddicoat Noel Panilagao Desma-Ann van Rosendal Sam Scott Kellie T. Jo Caughtry Brianne Bourdon

..."'And don't cut costs at the expense of residents with dementia"'.. #dementia #design #budgeting #art #landmarks This is an excellent interview by HammondCare and A/Professor Colm Cunningham on architectural and landscape design. The points made are summarised with the sage advice to not limit design benefits by cutting costs. There is an attitude that art is just a landmark that could be miscellaneous. However, in Art Styling, art creates: - architectural and landscape style - balance environmental scale - creates order through collinearity for neurobiological serenity - beauty, wonder, curiosity, surprise and happy emotions for wayfinding saliency including: - bright naturally coloured, textures - themes for reminiscence - self-guided activities - conversation cues If a person with vision impairment can only see 2 meters around them, then what they can see is immensely important. Thus, saving costs by selecting Hospitality Artworks that are, by example, all bird illustrations, or all coral reef photos throughout a facility only creates an institutional design. Similarly, ad hoc artworks creates visual clutter and therefore, a feeling of disorder and confusion. in addition, because glare and reflections are triggers for individuals with dementia, framed glass prints again present a poor investment - and show a designer's lack of valuing art, care and/or understanding of design for people with dementia - at their expense. Instead, interior or exterior art that is large, colourful, textured, meaningfully placed, stable, beautiful art that is flat, is indeed value packed. In this way, our full-facility designs for providers have the potential to save FTE costs, renovation costs, activity costs and, costs associated with resident stress over wayfinding and loss of independence and privacy. That is called Innovation. Practical art. Like it? How do you see art being used in outdoor spaces?

Let's Talk Sex: Design Strategies for Recognizing Consent in Care Home Relationships #sex #dementia #agedcare #consent #design #wayfinding #landmarks Dr. Nathalie Huitema will be presenting on sexuality, aging, and consent at the upcoming International Dementia Conference 2024, scheduled for September 5-6 at the Hilton, Sydney - and so will we! In her abstract, Nathalie highlights, "The sexual rights - and therefore the human rights - of older adults with dementia are at stake, and it's time for the aged care industry to learn how to support them." Upon reflecting on Nathalie's insights, we found striking parallels between her perspective and our design approach. For example: "Unfortunately, it is common for healthcare professionals to overlook the sexual consent of individuals living in long-term care with cognitive impairments." ... "While striving for a risk-free existence might seem appealing, I believe that eliminating all risks results in a life lacking fulfillment." The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission emphasizes, "Dignity of risk is another way of saying you have the right to live the life you choose, even if your choices involve some risk." Biophilic Aged Care Architect Bill Browning, in the Shaping Dementia Environments podcast, "Removing The Bubblewrap," discusses how risk creates a thrill that releases dopamine as a natural part of human flourishing. Thus, aging with risk and a fulfilling sex life is a strength. Utilizing strengths-based design in facilities enables staff to recognize consent in care home relationships. Design strategies, such as enhancing room door recognition, facilitate this recognition. The use of True Doors® collections can prevent individuals from entering the wrong room, preventing mistaken identity scenarios that may lead to anger or unwanted sexual behaviors. Similarly, choosing the right door is crucial for consensual sexual relationships. As Dr. Nathalie suggests, "we should seek a balance between risk mitigation and enhancing quality of life." She further highlights, "Despite a general decline in executive functioning and memory, many individuals with dementia retain their emotional capacity, automatic motor skills, and the ability to live in the moment." At Tailored Artworks, we offer a comprehensive wayfinding system to assist providers in meeting the Aged Care Design Principles and Guidelines, empowering residents to establish meaningful connections, maintain independence and privacy, and inject excitement into their lives. Don't miss out on the International Dementia Conference to join the discussion led by Dr. Nathalie Huitema and our team on this crucial topic. https://lnkd.in/gbBpgJHG Klaus Veil Dr Pamela Topping International Dementia Conference HammondCare Liz Fuggle Peter McCloud Tara Quirke BlueCare Arcare Aged Care Opal Healthcare Australian Unity Sara Manley Lara Basso Marie Alford Liam Whitley