Audit Tools and Services

Audit tools can provide a useful framework for assessing the care environment. They provide a systematic reference point for highlighting areas for change and are based on a set of best practice principles or guidelines. 

Audit Tools

Below is a selection of audit tools available for dementia care environments:

• Environmental Design Resource
• Applying the Key Design Principles in Environments for People Living with Dementia
• ​Environmental Assessment Tool (Handbook)
• Environmental Assessment Tool - Higher Care (Handbook)
• Dementia Friendly Community - Environmental Assessment Tool (Handbook)
• Environmental Assessment Tool
• ​Environmental Assessment Tool - Higher Care
• Indigenous Aged Care Design Guide
• Lighting Audit Tool
• ​​Environmental Audit Tool Review - ‘The use of environmental assessment tools for the evaluation of Australian residential facilities for people with dementia’ (Richard Fleming. 2010)

Other Design Audit Tools

• ​​BEAT-D App – Environmental Design Service Tool
• Environment and Communication Assessment Toolkit (ECAT) for Dementia Care (with meters) - Jennifer Brush, Margaret Calkins, Carrie Bruce and Jon Sanford. 2012

• ​DesignSmart Audit Tool (The Dementia Centre)

Consultancy Services

Alzheimer’s WA Dementia Enabling Environments Consultancy Service

​The Dementia Enabling Environments team can provide audits of your existing internal and external environments as well as work with your design and architect team to ensure any new projects meet best practice in dementia enabling design (fee applicable). Please contact [email protected]​

The University of Wollongong based NSW/ACT

​​Dementia Training Australia (DTA) offers a free, award-winning environmental design education service - Designing for People with Dementia.

DTA’s environmental design experts provide onsite education, assessment and advice to managers, staff, project managers and architects wanting to create more enabling environments for people living with dementia.

DTA also offers the free BEAT-D App to guide you through an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of buildings used to accommodate people living with dementia.

​For more information, please contact DTA at [email protected] or (02) 4221 5555. 

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