An Environmental Design Lexicon for Dementia Care |
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Principal Investigator: Kimberly Van Haitsma |
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Abstract: This qualitative research project was designed by M. Powell Lawton to construct a lexicon of the design art for professionals engaged in the planning, design, administration, professional care, and research on nursing home facilities for people with dementia. An expert panel of consultants and the PIs directed a process of literature review and preliminary dictionary construction. This was followed by a period of observation and interview study at 6 nursing homes. The data gathered was used in a next lexicon draft, whose final form is a website. The website allows design actors to look up spaces, objects, functions, systems, and user needs and see state-of-the-art comments about the advantages and disadvantages of each. |
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