Download or read book An Urban Architecture to Nuture People Affected by Alzheimer s Disease written by Amanda Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Architecture for alzheimer disease written by Romano Del Nord and published by Alinea Editrice. This book was released on 2003 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Design Guide for Special Care Units for People with Alzheimer s Disease and Related Disorders written by Margaret Phillips Calkins and published by . This book was released on 1987* with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creating Empowering Environments for People with Dementia written by Kevin Charras and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume addresses the environments that exacerbate, exclude, and stigmatise those living with dementia to explore designs and processes that can optimise well-being and independence. Featuring the voices and opinions of people with dementia, the chapters showcase individual homes, special dementia facilities, different forms of care homes, and public spaces, from landscape to urbanism, as examples of how to meet the needs and preferences for those living with dementia now. As a response to a recent Cochrane meta-analysis (2022) which highlighted the problems associated with using traditional, medically orientated evaluative methods for environmental design, this book demonstrates a range of research methods that can be used to inform and investigate good co-design of dementia-enabling environments. Furthermore, the book addresses cultural differences in people's needs and illustrates past, ongoing, and novel initiatives worldwide. Ultimately, this timely volume focuses on person-centred design that enables empowerment, quality of life, health, and citizenship in people living with dementia. It will be of value to researchers, scholars, and postgraduate students studying gerontology, dementia specifically, and those involved with architecture and the built environment for societal benefit more broadly.
Download or read book A Place to Live a Space to Die written by Larry Dwaine Swink and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thesis will show that when coupled with front-end, in depth research, architecture can provide an environment that improves the lives of not only those suffering from Alzheimer's disease, but the lives of the caregiver(s) and the aging in general. The method of approach will include research of the human sensory system, phenomenology and perception, the study of materials and lighting, observation and study of existing care facilities, and research of existing published guidelines. Issues of daylighting, good lighting design, acoustical support, tactile components, wayfinding, social interaction, orientation, safety, and independence will be investigated as they relate to the sensory system of the Alzheimer's sufferer as well as their relationship to the design of a more comfortable and healthier environment for the patient and the caregiver(s). This thesis has touched on a number of topics, with the most successful topic appearing to be the study of the relationship between the senses and environmental behaviors of the person with Alzheimer's disease. Other successful results were the initial development of the Interactive Memory Wall (IMW) and the Memory Hearth. While architecture cannot solve all issues for the Alzheimer's sufferer, the conclusion will show that there is a real need for continued empirical research in the design of environments for those suffering from Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia and that in order for design to promote well-being for this population, architects must incorporate front-end and in depth research into their design process.
Download or read book Urban Mental Health written by Dinesh Bhugra and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past fifty years we have seen an enormous demographic shift in the number of people migrating to urban areas, proliferated by factors such as industrialisation and globalisation. Urban migration has led to numerous societal stressors such as pollution, overcrowding, unemployment, and resource, which in turn has contributed to psychiatric disorders within urban spaces. Rates of mental illness, addictions, and violence are higher in urban areas and changes in social network systems and support have increased levels of social isolation and lack of social support. Part of the Oxford Cultural Psychiatry series, Urban Mental Health brings together international perspectives on urbanisation, its impacts on mental health, the nature of the built environment, and the dynamic nature of social engagement. Containing 24 chapters on key topics such as research challenges, adolescent mental health, and suicides in cities, this resource provides a refreshing look at the challenges faced by clinicians and mental health care professionals today. Emphasis is placed on findings from low- and middle-income countries where expansion is rapid and resources limited bridging the gap in research findings.
Download or read book Wayfinding in Architecture written by David Graham Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Consuming Architecture written by Sarah Chaplin and published by Academy Press. This book was released on 1998-05-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles on the nature of consumerism in relation to architectural practice.
Download or read book Cosmopolis II written by Leonie Sandercock and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st century will be the century of multicultural cities, of the struggle for equality and diversity and the struggle against fundamentalism. Cosmopolis II presents a truly global tour of contemporary cities - from Birmingham to Rotterdam, Frankfurt to Berlin, Sydney to Vancouver, and Chicago to East St. Louis. Passionately written and superbly illustrated with a range of specially commissioned images, Cosmopolis II is a visionary book of our urban future.
Download or read book Urban Environments written by Elisabetta G. Mapelli and published by Academy Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of articles from recent issues of "Architectural Design", this text focuses on living in the 21st century and takes from "Des-res architecture", "The everyday in architecture" and "Ephemeral/portable architecture" and with a small selection from "Sci-fi architecture".
Download or read book Therapeutic Landscapes written by Clare Cooper Marcus and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and authoritative guide offers an evidence-based overview of healing gardens and therapeutic landscapes from planning to post-occupancy evaluation. It provides general guidelines for designers and other stakeholders in a variety of projects, as well as patient-specific guidelines covering twelve categories ranging from burn patients, psychiatric patients, to hospice and Alzheimer's patients, among others. Sections on participatory design and funding offer valuable guidance to the entire team, not just designers, while a planting and maintenance chapter gives critical information to ensure that safety, longevity, and budgetary concerns are addressed.
Download or read book Therapeutic Landscape Design written by Stefano Capolongo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-04 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an approach strongly oriented to socio-health contexts and healthcare facilities, with multidisciplinary contributions on the methodological and technical aspects, or legislative issues, the book provides tools and design strategies to plan and realize therapeutic places and healing gardens for care, rehabilitation, interaction, and social inclusion. It addresses all the technical and medical professionals - like Architects, Urban Planners, Agronomist, Sociologists, Epidemiologists, Public Health experts, Policy Makers, etc. - wishing to explore the link between built environment, well-being, and health, referring in particular to the direct relationship between places and therapy.
Download or read book Putting Patients First written by Susan B. Frampton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Putting Patients First showcases what Planetree facilities and the Planetree organization have learned about the commitments, conditions, practices, and policies that are needed to do more than give lip service to being--patient-centered.--It should be read by every student, nurse, physician, administrator, trustee, policy maker, and lay person who is committed to creating healing environments, holding facilities accountable for their rhetoric, and truly reforming health care.
Download or read book The Cognitive Underpinnings of Anthropomorphism written by Gabriella Airenti and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The attribution of human traits to non-humans - animals, artifacts or even natural events - is an attitude, deeply grounded in human mind. It is frequent to see children addressing dolls and figures as if they were alive. Adults often attribute mental states and emotions to animals. In everyday life humans speak of events such as fires as if they possessed some form of intentionality, a behavior sometimes shared also by scientists. Furthermore, a systematized form of anthropomorphism underlies most religions. The pervasiveness of this phenomenon makes it a particularly interesting object of psychological enquiry. Psychologists have set out to understand which aspects of human mind are involved in this behavior, its motivations and the circumstances favoring its enactment. Moreover, there is an ongoing debate among scientists about the merits or harm of anthropomorphism in the scientific study of animal behavior and in scientific discourse. Despite the interest and the specificity of the topic most of the relevant studies are scattered across disciplines and have not built a systematic research framework. This observation has motivated the collection of articles presented here, under the unifying perspective of the cognitive underpinnings of anthropomorphism. Within this general umbrella, the authors included in this e-book have explored the issues mentioned above from different points of view. From their work it emerges that far from being the result of naive beliefs, the exercise of anthropomorphism involves a multiplicity of mental abilities including perception and imagination. They also show that the context and the interactive situation are crucial to understanding this phenomenon. Some authors analyze the relationship between anthropomorphization and theory of mind abilities both in typical and atypical populations. Finally, others contributions have identified possible benefits deriving from the natural attitude to anthropomorphize, as a design philosophy for robots and artifacts in general, or as a useful heuristic in the scientific study of animal behavior.
Download or read book Current Contents written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book EDRA Proceedings of the Annual Environmental Design Research Association Conference written by Environmental Design Research Association and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Health of Older Americans written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-09-23 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Older Americans, even the oldest, can now expect to live years longer than those who reached the same ages even a few decades ago. Although survival has improved for all racial and ethnic groups, strong differences persist, both in life expectancy and in the causes of disability and death at older ages. This book examines trends in mortality rates and selected causes of disability (cardiovascular disease, dementia) for older people of different racial and ethnic groups. The determinants of these trends and differences are also investigated, including differences in access to health care and experiences in early life, diet, health behaviors, genetic background, social class, wealth and income. Groups often neglected in analyses of national data, such as the elderly Hispanic and Asian Americans of different origin and immigrant generations, are compared. The volume provides understanding of research bearing on the health status and survival of the fastest-growing segment of the American population.
