Neighbourhoods for life: Designing dementia‐friendly outdoor environments
Neighbourhoods for life: Designing dementia‐friendly outdoor environments
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生活社区：设计对痴呆症友好的户外环境
DOI：
10.1108/14717794200600005
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
E. Burton
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作者：
L. Mitchell;E. Burton
到目前为止，痴呆症的设计侧重于疗养院和痴呆症护理设施的内部、一般机构环境。然而，大多数患有痴呆症的老年人住在家里，其中约三分之一是独自生活的。除非户外环境被设计成帮助患有痴呆症的老年人继续使用他们当地的社区，否则他们实际上会变得呆在家里。本文介绍了牛津布鲁克斯大学牛津可持续发展研究所WELSE(可持续环境中的福祉)研究小组进行的一项为期三年的研究项目的结果。研究人员得到了EPSRC EQUAL倡议的资助，以检查如何使外部环境对痴呆症友好。这项史无前例的研究调查了患有痴呆症的老年人对户外环境的感知、体验和使用，并确定了影响他们成功使用和谈判当地社区的能力的设计因素。研究发现，有利于痴呆症的户外环境是熟悉的、可辨认的、独特的、可接近的、舒适和安全的地方。这一发现使研究人员能够为从城市设计到街道设施设计的所有级别的设计师提供一些初步建议，以确定开发适合痴呆症的城市地区时应考虑的标准。
Design for dementia has, to date, focused on the internal, generally institutional environment of care homes and dementia care facilities. Yet the majority of older people with dementia live at home, around one third of these on their own. Unless outdoor environments are designed to help older people with dementia continue to use their local neighbourhoods they will become effectively housebound. This paper presents the findings of a three‐year research project conducted by the WISE (Wellbeing in Sustainable Environments) research unit of the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development at Oxford Brookes University. The researchers were funded by the EPSRC EQUAL initiative to examine how the outside environment could be made dementia friendly. This unprecedented research investigated the perceptions, experiences and use of the outdoor environment by older people with dementia and identified design factors that influence their ability to successfully use and negotiate their local neighbourhoods. The research found that dementia‐friendly outdoor environments are places that are familiar, legible, distinctive, accessible, comfortable and safe. The findings have enabled the researchers to provide some preliminary recommendations for designers, at all scales from urban design to the design of street furniture, on the criteria to consider in developing dementia‐friendly urban areas.