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Our illustrations are great examples of dementia design and contain a wealth of information on creating beautiful, enabling spaces for people living with dementia.

Adapting Your Home

The ‘Adapting Your Home’ booklet will provide you with knowledge on key dementia enabling design principles and characteristics, and how these can be applied to different areas of the home.

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World Alzheimer Report 2020

​World Alzheimer Report 2020: Design, Dignity, Dementia: dementia-related design and the built environment

• World Alzheimer Report 2020: Volume 1 (PDF 248 pages)
• World Alzheimer Report 2020: Volume 2 (PDF 264 pages)

Creating enabling environments 

Posters and resource cards detailing dementia enabling environmental principles in support of a person living with dementia.
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A3 Posters

• Create an enabling home environment
• Create an enabling care environment
• Create an enabling garden environment
• Create enabling public spaces

A5 Cards

• Create an enabling home environment
• Create an enabling care environment
• Create an enabling garden environment
• Create enabling public spaces

Design and symptomologies of dementia

Making positive changes within the physical environment can maximise enablement and wellbeing for people living with dementia. This table explains how design changes in the environment can help manage common symptomologies of dementia.​
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• Design and symptomologies of dementia table

Illustration Information Sheets

These comprehensive information sheets include illustrations and in-depth information about integrating enabling design and assistive technology into your home.

Adapt a Home

• Living
• Kitchen
• Dining
• Laundry
• Bedroom
• Bathroom

Adapt an Apartment

• Kitchen
• Bedroom
• Bathroom

Gardens

• Care Environment Garden
• Home Garden​

Care Environments

• ​​​Bedroom
• Corridor
• Dining Areas
• Bathroom (Ensuite)
• ​Engagement Areas
• Entrance
• Exit
• Kitchen
• Living Areas
• Quiet Room
• Water Closet (WC)

 
Public Buildings

• Entry
• Reception
• Meeting Room
• Male Toilet
• Female Toilet

Hospitals

• Reception or Clerical
• Staff Station
• Bedroom
• Inboard Ensuite
• Patient or Family Lounge

Dementia Specialist Consultancy Services​

Alzheimer's WA's capacity building model brings our dementia expertise to support the development of your services and environments.​

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