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Tag Archives: Handrails
How Dementia-Friendly Is Each Ward? The EHE Assessment Tool (King’s Fund, Enhancing the Healing Environment)
[A version of this item appears in: Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 2 Issue 8, March 2012]. Summary Relatively inexpensive and straightforward changes to the design of health care environments can enhance the wellbeing of people with dementia, … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Enhancing the Healing Environment, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), King's Fund, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Developing Supportive Design for People with Dementia: Design Principles (King’s Fund, Enhancing the Healing Environment)
[A version of this item appears in: Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 2 Issue 8, March 2012]. Summary These design principles have been assembled as a practical resource to help organisations develop dementia-friendly health care environments. The overarching … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), King's Fund, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Accent Colours, Activities of Daily Living, Artworks, Artworks that Reflect the Seasons, Bed and Social Spaces, Books and Games, Calendars, Clear Sight Lines, Discrete Security Measures, Domestic Scale Seating and Dining Areas, Drinks and Snacks, Easing Decision-Making, EHE: Enhancing the Healing Environment, Enabling Activities of Daily Living, Encouraging Independence and Social Interaction, Enhancing the Healing Environment (EHE), Even Lighting, Familiarity, Gardens, Handrails, Identification of Bays, Interactive Artworks, King’s Fund EHE Programme, King’s Fund Enhancing the Healing Environment Programme, Large Face Clocks, Legibility, Matt Even Coloured Flooring, Meaningful Activity, Memorabilia, Natural Light, Noise Reduction, Orientation, Outcomes, Outside Spaces, Personal Items, Photographs and Memory Boxes, Photographs of Local Scenes, Places to Walk, Promoting Safety, Recognisable Sanitary Ware, Reducing Agitation and Distress, Resting Points, Self Care Items, Signage, Signage Pictures and Text, Signs Denoting Ward and Hospital Name, Social Spaces, Supportive Design for People with Dementia: Design Principles, Traditional Crockery and Cutlery, Uncluttered Spaces, Views of Nature, Visible Staff
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