WHY STANDARD CARE ENVIRONMENT ARCHITECTURE FAILS: CAUSING EXCESSIVE CHALLENGE TO QUALITY CARE, INCREASING BPSDS AND ACTIVELY OPPOSING WELLBEING CAN EVIDENCE BASED, YET FUNDAMENTALLY NEW, APPROACHES TO CARE ENVIRONMENT DESIGN MAKE EVERYONE'S LIVES BETTER?
Background:Care homes continue closing at worrying rates and only 1% of adult social care remains rated as outstanding (CQC, The State of Health Care and Adult Social Care in England 2015/16) Is the fundamental architecture of dementia care environments playing a negative role in the delivery of outstanding care? If so, how? Can the underlying architecture, instead, play a wider positive role in making care giving easier, all round wellbeing better and the buildings more affordable to construct? Methods:Analysing the history of care environment design. Time spent giving art sessions in dementia care environments, and as a carer in general care environments for challenging behaviours. Study of research documents on enhancing wellbeing dementia specific documents as well as general. Dis
Alzheimer's Dementia