The
Virtual Hospital, created by the Dementia
Services Development Centre highlights good design strategies in making an
acute healthcare setting dementia-friendly. Similar to the Virtual Care
Home, which was highlighted on the Info-LTC blog last May, these virtual
spaces help to illustrate how small changes to a space can make a big impact in
designing a home away from home for people with dementia.
The Virtual
Hospital shows the layout of 15 different spaces located in a hospital (or
in a long-term care home), including the entrance, the café, the elevator, the
garden, corridors, bedrooms and bathrooms. Each model incorporates
information on the design details that make this space dementia-friendly.
It also includes advice on how to adapt and update a space to make it
dementia-friendly.
To view the Virtual Hospital, please visit, http://www.dementia.stir.ac.uk/design/virtual-environments/virtual-hospital
To
see the latest publications on design and patient-friendly environments, don’t
forget to visit our Current Perspectives in Environmental Design in Long-Term
Care at http://libguides.lib.umanitoba.ca/environment-longtermcare
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