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Tag Archives: Physical Environment
Modification of the Physical Environment to Support People With Dementia (Dementia)
Summary A systematic review investigates the efficacy of physical environment-related strategies for supporting everyday activities in people living with dementia: Full Text Link Reference Woodbridge, R. Sullivan, MP. [and] Harding, E. [et al] (2018). Use of the physical environment to … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Assistive Technology, Community Care, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Housing, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accessible Environments, Activities of Daily Living, Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), Age-Friendly Environments, Architectural Layout, Bristol Activities of Daily Living Scale (BADLS), Brunel University, Built Environment, Closet Simplification, Contrast, Dementia (Journal), Dementia Friendly Indoor Environments, Dementia-Friendly Care Homes, Dementia-Friendly Design, Dementia-Friendly Environmental Design, Dementia-Friendly Environments, Dementia-Friendly Homes, Dementia-Friendly Hospitals, Dementia-Friendly Housing, Dementia-Friendly Organisations, Design and Built Environment, Dining Environment, Enhancing the Healing Environment (EHE), Environment Simplification, Environmental Ambiance, Environmental Design, Familiar Cues, Familiar Environments, Gardens, Home Modifications, Homelike Environments, Independence at Home, Independent Living, Independent Living At Home, Institute of Environment Health and Societies: Brunel University London, Lighting, Orientation, Physical Environment, Predictive Homes, Space Orientation, Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, Time Orientation, University College London
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Building Age-Friendly Cities (Houses of Parliament Library POST Note PN 539)
Summary A recent Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) note on “Creating age friendly cities” considers the challenges involved in making cities more “age-friendly”. It examines how housing, transport and outdoor spaces etc. might be re-designed to promote independence … Continue reading →
Posted in Assistive Technology, Commissioning, Community Care, For Researchers (mostly), Housing, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Green Space, Access to Urban Green Spaces, Age Friendly Homes, Age-Friendly Cities, Age-Friendly Cities (WHO), Age-Friendly Cities and Communities, Age-Friendly Communities, Ageing Population, Architecture and Design Scotland, Attitudes to Ageing, Attitudes to Older People, BBC Health News, BBC Scotland News, Building Age-Friendly Cities (POST Note PN 539), Built Environment, Challenges in Creation of Age-Friendly Cities, Crichton Trust, Dumfries and Galloway Care Campus Project (Crichton Trust), Essential Features of Age-Friendly Cities, Global Age Friendly Cities (WHO), Green Spaces, Health Benefits of Green Space, Houses of Parliament, Infrastructure Costs, Local Planning, Nuffield Foundation Flowers Fellowship, Outdoor Spaces, Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology, Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology (POST), Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), Physical Environment, POST: Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology, Public Transport, Transport, Transport and Mobility, Transportation Infrastructure, Urban Green Space and Trees
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Reduction of Health Inequalities: Natural Solutions? (UCL IHE / JCN / BBC News)
Summary This UCL Institute of Health Equity report presents the evidence on the benefits of green spaces for improving health and wellbeing outcomes. Inequalities in access to natural environments in England are thought to contribute to health inequalities. The report … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access Standards, Access to Green Space, Access to Green Spaces, Access to Green Spaces and Deprivation, Access to Greenspace, Access to Nature, Accessible Natural Greenspace Standard (ANGSt), Active England, Active Parks, Activities for Population Health, Avoidable Premature Mortality, Barriers to Engagement With the Natural Environment, BBC Health News, Beat the Street, Benefits of Activity, Birmingham City Council, Birmingham’s NHS-funded Be Active Programme, Bromley-by-Bow Healthy Living Centre in East London, Campaign for National Parks (CNP), Capital Woodlands, Cardiovascular Disease, Care Farming UK, Causes of Premature Mortality, Childhood Obesity, Conservation Volunteers’ Green Gyms Programme, Coventry Mind’s Ecotherapy Service, CVD: Cardiovascular Disease, Diakonhjemmet University College (Oslo), Disability Free Life Expectancy (DFLE), Ecominds: PoLLeN (People, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Evaluation of Access to Nature Education Projects, Exercise, Fields in Trust, Forest Schools, Garden Areas, Gardening, Gardens in Care Homes, Green Exercise Partnership, Green Exercise Partnership (GEP), Green Space and Health Inequalities, Greening Dementia, Greening Dementia Project, Greenspace and Obesity, Greenspace for Health and Exercise, Health and the Natural Environment, Health Equity, Health Equity and Impact, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities in England, Healthy and Active Ageing: Life-Course Approach (WHO), Horticultural Activities, Horticultural Therapy, Horticulture, Improving Access to Green Spaces, Institute of Health and Society: University of Oslo, Institute of Health Equity, Institute of Health Equity (UCL), Institute of Nursing and Health: Diakonhjemmet University College, Integration of Physical and Mental Health, Intelligent Health, IPEN (International Physical Activity and the Environment Network), Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, Journal of Clinical Nursing, JSNAs: Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, Landscape & Nature), Life, Life-Course Approach to Healthy and Active Ageing, Local Action on Health Inequalities, Local Action on Reducing Health Inequalities, Local Authorities, Local Authority Adult Obesity Variations (England), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Mappiness App, Marmot Review, Mersey Forest Natural Health Service, Midlife Obesity, Mind’s Ecominds Scheme, Mosaic, Mosaic Young Champions Project, National Outdoors for All Working Group, Natural Connections Demonstration Project, Natural England, Natural England’s “Outdoors for All” Programme, Natural England’s Walking for Health Scheme, Natural Environment, Natural Solutions to Tackling Health Inequalities, Neighbourhood Greenness, Norway, Obesity, Obesity Epidemic, Obesity in the UK, Outdoor Activities, Outdoors for All Strategic Research Group, Parks and Gardens, Parks and Green Spaces, PHE: Public Health England, PHOF: Public Health Outcomes Framework, Physical Activity, Physical Activity and the Environment, Physical Environment, Physical Exercise, Premature Mortality, Proportionate Universalism, Public Engagement, Public Health, Public Health England (PHE), Public Health Interventions, Public Health Outcomes Framework, Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF), Reducing Avoidable Premature Mortality, Reducing Health Inequalities, Reducing Premature Mortality, Revaluing Parks and Green Spaces (Fields in Trust), Sensory Gardens, Social Determinants of Health Inequalities, Social Value Act 2012, Stepping Stones to Nature (SS2N) Project, TCV Green Gyms®, Therapeutic Horticulture, Travelling to School Initiative, UCL Institute of Health Equity, University College London Institute of Health Equity, University of Oslo, Updated Marmot Indicators (IHE), Urban Green Space and Trees, VisitWoods East Durham Outreach, Woodland Health for Youth (WHY), Woodland Trust’s Woodland Access Standard
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Care Homes Can Learn From Alternative Residential Care Settings (JRF)
Summary This Joseph Rowntree Foundation review explores learning from: (a) care in residential services for children and young people, (b) residential services and supported housing for people with learning disabilities and (c) hospice care. The report explores the possibility of … Continue reading →
Posted in Antipsychotics, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Pharmacological Treatments, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest
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Foundation Guidelines for Dementia Friendly Communities (North East Dementia Alliance)
Summary This report, commissioned by the North East Dementia Alliance, might be considered a handbook for people involved in the development of dementia friendly communities. It attempts to identify how dementia friendly communities might be created, covering the core aims … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, Enhancing the Healing Environment, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Care, Access to Services, Accreditation Schemes, Age-Friendly Cities, Age-Friendly Communities, All Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry, Alzheimer's Society Abertawe Bro Morgannwg, Alzheimer’s Society in Wales, Awareness, Awareness and Understanding, Awareness Raising, Bradford, Bradford Dementia Environment Project, Building Community Assets, Building Community Capacity, Building Dementia and Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Care for People with Dementia in the Community, Care in the Community, Commissioning Pack for Dementia, Community, Community Care Services, Community Development (CD), Community Engagement, Community Facilities, Community Factors, Community Groups, Community Involvement, Community Networks, Community Partners, Community Perspective, Community Research, Community-Based Support, Creating Dementia Friendly Environments, Debenham Project, Dementia and Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia Awareness, Dementia Friendly Communities Programme, Dementia Friendly Indoor Environments, Dementia Friendly Outdoor and Public Environments, Dementia Networks, Dementia-Friendly Cities, Dementia-Friendly City, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Community Model, Dementia-Friendly Design, Dementia-Friendly Environmental Design, Dementia-Friendly Hospitals, Dementia-Friendly Housing, Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia-Friendly Rural Parishes, Dementia-Friendly Towns, Dementia-Friendly Villages, Dementia-Friendly Wards, Dementia-Friendly York, Designing Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Early Diagnosis, East Midlands, East Midlands Dementia Action Alliance, East Sutherland, Engagement, English National Dementia Strategy, Environment Accreditation Scheme Within the Dementia Friendly Environments NHS Capital Fund, Essential Features of Age-Friendly Cities, Innovations in Dementia: a CIC, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Leeds, Living Well with Dementia, Living Well with Dementia Research, Local and Community Level Well-Being, Local Community Groups, Local Context, Local Government, Local Government Association: LGA, Local Networks, Monitoring Dementia Friendliness, National Dementia Strategy, Neighbourhoods for Life, Networks, Networks that Work, North East Dementia Alliance, North East Strategic Health Authority, North West England, Northern Rock Foundation, Northumberland, Northumberland Dementia Initiative, Northumberland the Ballinger Trust Northumberland Dementia Initiative, Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2012/13, Physical Environment, Plymouth, Plymouth Dementia Action Alliance (PDDA), Plymouth Naval Base, Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia, Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge, Principles for Engagement, Quality Outcomes for People With Dementia, Redcar, Resident Engagement, Safer Communities, Social Networks, South West England, Stockton-on-Tees, Sunderland, Support Networks, Sustainability, Sustainable Funding, Torbay, Torbay Dementia Action Alliance, Unlocking Diagnosis, Yorkshire and Humber Dementia Action Alliance
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Successful Bids for £50m Dementia Friendly Environments Funding (Department of Health)
Summary The Department of Health has released a list of the successful bids for a share of the £50m funding of capital projects to improve care environments for people with dementia. This lists the 116 hospitals and care homes which have been awarded money, … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Management of Condition, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Care of Older People with Cognitive Impairment in General Hospitals (NIHR SDO)
Summary Mental health problems amongst the elderly in acute hospitals include dementia (31% of all older people in hospitals) and delirium (estimated in this report as 20% of all older people in hospitals). Outcomes for patients in hospitals with these … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Delirium, Falls, Falls Prevention, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NIHR, NIHRSDO, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Acute Hospital Care, Admissions, Assessment, Assessment and Diagnosis, Assessment of Competence, Avoidable Admissions, Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), BPSD, BPSD: Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia, Care in General Hospitals, Caregiver Training, Caring for People with Dementia on Hospital Wards, Cognitive Assessment, Cognitive Impairment, Communication, Competence, Confusion (Delirium), Core and Common Competences for Support Workers, Dementia Care in Acute General Hospitals, Dementia Care in General Hospitals, Dementia Care in the Acute Hospital, Dementia Identification, Dementia Qualifications (Skills for Care), Dementia-Friendly Wards, Diagnosis and Assessment, Disruptive Behaviour, Education and Dementia, Education and Training, Educational Intervention, EHE and Dementia Projects, EHE: Enhancing the Healing Environment, Epidemiology, Family Carers, General Hospitals, Hospitals as Dangerous Places, Hospitals as Hazardous Places, Hydration, Hydration and Nutrition, Impact of Caring on Carers, Impact of Dementia on Hospital Readmission, Improving Care in General Hospital Settings, Liaison Psychiatry Services, Multidisciplinary Teams, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO), NHS Culture, NIHR, NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation Programme, Older People's Wards, Organisational and Professional Cultures, Patient Admission, Patient Care, Patient Documentation, Patient Experience, Patient Rights, Patient Safety, Patient-Centered Care, Physical Environment, Prevalence of Dementia, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Problems in Care in English Acute Hospitals, Psychiatric Liaison Services, Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), SDO Project 08/1809/227, Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO), Skills and Competencies, Skills for Care, Staff Training, Training, Training Needs Analysis, Underlying Causes of BPSD, University of Nottingham, Unpaid Caregivers (Carers), Unpaid Carers, Wandering, Workforce Competencies, Workforce Training
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Successful Applications for £50m Dementia Fund: First Round (Department of Health)
Summary The Department of Health has released a list of the successful applicants for Stage One of the £50m funding of capital projects to improve care environments for people with dementia. Read more: Successful applicants announced for stage 1 of … Continue reading →
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Health Secretary Announces Funding for Care Homes and Wards: Enhancing the Healing Environment for People with Dementia (Department of Health)
[A version of this item features in Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust), Volume 3 Issue 4, November 2012]. Summary Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced additional funding to promote the creation of care environments for people with … Continue reading →
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Breaking News: Evaluation Report Published for Excellent Care in a Dementia Friendly Acute Hospital (University of Worcester, Association for Dementia Studies)
[A version of this item appears in: Dementia and Elderly Care: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 3 Issue 3, October 2012]. Summary We have just this week learned that the final evaluation of the New Cross Hospital Dementia Project … Continue reading →
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