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Presented by
Lorraine G Hiatt, PhD
Environmental Gerontologist
CC Andrews
President & Chief Strategist
Quantum Age Collaborative
Course Description
Traditionally, designers and sponsors of memory care settings use the built environment to attempt to mitigate risks, maximize wayfinding, and slough off excess energy. But few innovations actually support people with mild-moderate memory access issues so that they can address and adapt to their own early changes. We’ve yet to collaborate on filling the gaps with design initiatives, opening options for those with quirky or flawed memory skills. How can we shift from a memory care mindset to one of memory enhancement? Might we design to “prime” memory access and take advantage of research on attention span, the challenges of multitasking, and the values of sleep?
In this interactive workshop, we will review examples of interventions that go beyond memory care and instead make accessing memory easier for residents. In workgroups, we will assign evidence-based memory enhancements like stress reduction, fitness, sleep, and other factors, and then brainstorm design and programming interventions to support them. We will report back to the full group our ideas and compile them into a summary for those interested in taking the next steps in memory enhancement.
Learning Objectives
To solicit and share examples of barriers, actual and perceived, and how these are being overcome through evidence-based design.
To see/explore design examples addressing mobility/energy, sensory, social diversity and sleep hygiene for optimizing memory.
To better visualize examples pertaining to dwelling and commons design across levels of care and community life.
To consider Memory Diversity and identify opportunities for improving the odds/opportunities/contributions through more potent design criteria.