DESIGN CRITERIA FOR ALZHEIMERS SPECIAL CARE PROGRAMS

在痴呆症护理领域，专业人士和研究人员认为 适宜的物理环境是治疗心力衰竭的有效因素 为阿尔茨海默病患者和 相关的痴呆症。目前的研究表明，在接下来的时间里 十年一万个或更多的特殊护理单位和日托 将建立具有以下治疗设计特征的计划 旨在更好地支持这些居民。在第二阶段是这样的 该项目的目标是开发一个工具系统，研究人员、设计人员 专业人士，特别是护理机构的操作员可以使用 评估、修改或为这些人创造治疗环境。 具体地说，在第二阶段，该项目将进一步发展 方法论方法和验证设计标准 在第一阶段投入运行并获得初步验证 项目将产生的炉石SCU设计系统，一个应用程序 包括计算机化条形码读取器数据收集的包 系统、软件模板和用户友好的手册，可以改进 养老院、住宿和日托中心的环境质量 以及痴呆症患者居住的私人住宅。 建议的商业应用：这项研究将导致 开发SCU管理员、设计人员使用的应用程序包 和其他可用于评估、编程、翻新和/或设计 治疗支持性环境。拥有超过一万个新的SCU 预计在未来十年内建成，商业应用程序是 浩瀚无边。

In the field of dementia care, professionals and researchers consider an appropriate physical environment to be an effective therapeutic element in the delivery of quality care for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementing illnesses. Current research suggests that in the next decade ten thousand or more special care units (SCUs) and day care programs will be established with therapeutic design features that are intended to better support these residents. In Phase II it is this project's objective to develop a system of tools that researchers, design professionals, and particularly operators of care settings can use to evaluate, modify, or create therapeutic environments for such individuals. Specifically, in Phase II the project will further develop the methodological approaches and validate the design criteria which were operationalized and received preliminary validation in Phase I. The project will produce the Hearthstone SCU Design System, an applications package which includes a computerized bar-code reader data collection system, software templates, and user-friendly manuals that can improve the quality of environments in nursing homes, residential and day care centers and private homes where people with dementia live. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: The research will result in the development of an applications package that SCU administrators, designers and others can use to evaluate, program, renovate and/or design therapeutically supportive environments. With over ten thousand new SCUs expected to be built in the next decade, the commercial applications are vast.