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Monday, November 09, 2009
Creating Age Friendly Environments Fact Sheet - a resource for designers, developers, planners, architects and engineers.
A new fact sheet from the Council on Ageing (NSW), Australia addressed three key areas in bringing about Age Friendly Environments and pulls together available resources.
Monday, March 24, 2008
DBA Inclusive Design Challenge 2008
Six firms have been shortlisted for the DBA Inclusive Design Challenge 2008. Entries were judged in January 2008, and the winner will be announced in an event at the Royal College of Art on 18 March 2008.
This year’s Challenge is sponsored by Sanctuary Care, a leading social housing provider with 52 Registered Care Homes, 5 Extra Care Schemes, 4 Home Care businesses, over 2300 staff and a turnover of £51 million and the London Centre for Dementia Care based at University College London. Their brief to which the six shortlisted teams responded is:
This year’s Challenge is sponsored by Sanctuary Care, a leading social housing provider with 52 Registered Care Homes, 5 Extra Care Schemes, 4 Home Care businesses, over 2300 staff and a turnover of £51 million and the London Centre for Dementia Care based at University College London. Their brief to which the six shortlisted teams responded is:
- Where would problems with memory create barriers and obstacles to living life at home?
- How would you help someone who may not be able to remember where they put something, where they came from, what they want to do?
- Making trips out to shops are risky if you cannot remember which way to go. What would help?
- How could new or existing technologies be harnessed to develop new products or services?
- Dementia is a D word: dangerous, demented, dodgy, difficult, even dirty
Is there anything that could be done to dismantle the prejudice and get rid of the label?
Friday, February 29, 2008
Design for Aging Review
Results are in for the 2007 Design for Aging Review (DFAR) Nine, reports Design for Aging Advisory Group Member Mitch Green, AIA.
A total of 72 submissions were received from 42 design firms in 27 different states. Projects once again have an international flavor, with representation from both the U.S. and Japan. In the four award categories, there were 56 submissions to Buildings, 8 to Planning, 4 to Concepts, and 4 to Research/Post-Occupancy Evaluations (POEs).
http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek08/0118/0118d_aging.cfm
A total of 72 submissions were received from 42 design firms in 27 different states. Projects once again have an international flavor, with representation from both the U.S. and Japan. In the four award categories, there were 56 submissions to Buildings, 8 to Planning, 4 to Concepts, and 4 to Research/Post-Occupancy Evaluations (POEs).
http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek08/0118/0118d_aging.cfm
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