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， 适当的物理环境是一个有效的治疗元素， 为阿尔茨海默病患者提供优质护理， 相关的精神疾病。目前的研究表明，在未来 10万个或更多的特殊护理单位和日托 将建立具有治疗设计特征的项目， 更好地支持这些居民。在第二阶段， 项目的目标是开发一个工具系统，研究人员，设计 专业人员，特别是护理机构的操作者可以使用， 评估，修改，或为这些人创造治疗环境。 具体而言，在第二阶段，该项目将进一步发展 方法论的方法和验证设计标准， 在第一阶段投入运行并得到初步验证。的 项目将产生炉石SCU设计系统，一个应用程序 包括计算机化条形码阅读器数据收集的软件包 系统，软件模板和用户友好的手册，可以提高 疗养院、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：该研究将导致 开发一个应用程序包，SCU管理员，设计师 其他人可以用来评估、规划、翻新和/或设计 治疗支持环境。 有超过一万个新的SCU 预计将在未来十年内建成，商业应用是 广阔

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.