ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT PROTOCOL FOR SPECIAL CARE UNITS

这个项目的目标是开发一个产品，将教育护理- 在长期护理环境中， 环境，并提供详细的设施特定评估 环境改造的建议支持的需要， 老年痴呆症患者研究表明，多达70%的 长期护理机构中的个人患有混乱或痴呆症。 然而，疗养院最初是作为亚急性医院开发的， 旨在为慢性或其他无法治疗的疾病提供医疗护理， 疾病，从而满足居民的非医疗需求， 阿尔茨海默病和相关痴呆症呈现出显著的 挑战.具体而言，该项目将开发一个环境 评估协议，以帮助长期护理机构诊断 适合痴呆症患者居住的环境 （在第一阶段开发，在第二阶段进一步验证）; 制作环境敏感性培训材料以增加 认识到环境在照顾这一点方面的治疗作用， 人口（第二阶段）;它将创造一个环境改造 增加信息获取的推荐程序 实施相关环境改造（第二阶段）。 接受调查的管理人员表示，绝大多数人支持这种类型的 产品 建议的商业应用：绝大多数长期护理 设置的设计没有理解的需要， 痴呆症患者。很少有设施可以建造替代品 建筑物，但许多人可以翻新。本产品提供 环境敏感性培训，设施特定评估，以及 详细的价格环境改造建议 几乎所有长期护理机构都能负担得起。

The goal of this project is to develop a product that will educate care- givers in long-term care settings on the therapeutic role of the physical environment and provide a facility-specific assessment with detailed recommendations for environmental modifications support the needs of residents with dementia. Research has suggested that as many as 70% of individuals in long-term care settings suffer from confusion or dementia. However, nursing homes were originally developed as sub-acute hospitals, intended to provide medical care for chronic or otherwise untreatable diseases, hence meeting the non-medical needs of residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias presents a significant challenge. Specifically, this project will develop an environmental assessment protocol to aid long-term care facilities in diagnosing the appropriateness of their environment for residents with dementia (developed in Phase I, to be further validated in Phase II); it will produce environmental sensitivity training materials to increase awareness of the therapeutic role of the environment in caring for this population (Phase II); and it will create an environmental modification recommendation procedure that increases access to the information necessary to implement relevant environmental modifications (Phase II). Administrators surveyed indicated overwhelming support for this type of product. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: The vast majority of long-term care settings were designed without an understanding of the needs of individuals with dementia. Few facilities can build replacement buildings, but many are able to renovate. This product provides environmental sensitivity training, a facility-specific assessment, and detailed recommendations for environmental modifications at a price affordable to virtually all long-term care settings.