Linking Person-Centered Care and the Physical Environment 10 Design Principles for Elder and Dementia Care Staff

摘要

This article describes a set of environmental design principles that can be implemented in the physical setting by elder and dementia care staff. Design principles are general "rules of thumb/' normative statements that guide aesthetic, functional, or compositional decisions. Although most design principles are intended for use by a professional design audience, there is no reason why design principles cannot be used by design laypersons such as elder and dementia care staff. These research-informed design principles are intended to guide care staff's efforts in creating supportive physical environments that balance the physical and psychosocial accommodation of program participants/residents and programming requirements within a person-centered care context.