Designing for Ageing and Dementia International Research Network

在日本和英国，与老龄化和日益严重的认知障碍人口生活在一起都被视为一个问题。尽管痴呆症的患病率正在下降，但随着两国人口寿命的延长，发病率正在上升：两国有近600万痴呆症患者，随着各自人口的老龄化，这一数字迅速上升。这种情况通常被认为是负面的和有问题的，但人口老龄化为创造性和创新性的解决方案创造了机会，以满足老年痴呆症患者的需求。其中一个领域是建筑环境的设计。以能够最大限度地提高生活质量、社会包容性和参与度的方式设计环境，日益成为两国的研究兴趣。从最大化个人和社会能力和参与的角度出发，重视老年人和痴呆症患者的贡献，日益成为英国和日本政策的重点，但仍需在实践和研究中实现。在跨国背景下探索这一障碍可能会暴露出在如何让老年人及其支持网络参与研究方面的文化差异。基于斯特林在为痴呆症患者设计环境方面的工作记录，并将其最初扩展到日本，有可能发展跨国家和跨文化的学习，了解如何从这个角度为患有痴呆症的老年人设计环境。该项目旨在让社区和老年人参与两国的工作，并更多地了解什么是真正重要的，以及哪里最需要证据。这项活动将有助于开展共同制作的、对文化敏感和产生影响的研究，并从两国的经验中吸取教训。三个范围确定的讲习班将集中于：参与社区和了解文化；英国(讲习班1)和日本(讲习班2)的政策和经济问题以及设计。包括痴呆症患者在内的利益相关者将能够参与这些活动。第三期讲习班将巩固前几次讲习班的经验教训，为今后的研究制定一份宣言。四个早期职业研究人员奖学金(ECR)将为日本(2)和英国(2)ECR提供获得深入知识和经验的机会。ECR将通过范围界定研究以及研究方案和联合出版物的制定过程得到指导。范围界定工作的主要成果将是一项跨国家研究方案，建立在两国现实和实用的关键问题和方法的相互理解和共识的基础上，并为感兴趣的人群提供对特定文化和文化不变的设计问题的洞察。该计划将考虑到资助倡议以及面向未来的工作。除了完成范围确定工作外，合作还将加强和增加来自英国和日本的从事这项工作的研究人员网络。项目完成后，将举办主题讲座，向日本和英国所有对老龄化和设计的环境方面感兴趣的研究人员开放，分享从网络中获得的经验。该项目将建立一个可持续的研究和利益相关者网络，推动对痴呆症患者生活环境的跨国家和跨文化合作研究。

Living with an ageing and increasingly cognitively impaired population is seen as an issue in both Japan and the UK. Although the prevalence of dementia is decreasing the incidence is increasing as populations in both countries live longer: between the two countries there are nearly 6 million people with dementia, with numbers rapidly increasing as the respective populations age. This situation is often considered negative and problematic, but an ageing population creates opportunities for creative and innovative solutions to meet the needs of older people with dementia. One such area is the design of the built environment. Designing environments in ways which can maximise quality of life, social inclusion and participation is increasingly a research interest in both countries. Taking a perspective which maximises personal and societal capacity and participation, valuing the contribution of older people and people with dementia, is increasingly an emphasis in policy in both the UK and Japan, yet has still to be realised in practice and research. Exploring this barrier in a cross-national context may expose cultural differences in how to engage older people and their support network in research.Building on Stirling's record of work on designing environments for people with dementia and its initial extension to Japan, there is potential to develop cross-national and cross-cultural learning about ways in which to design environments for older people with dementia with this perspective. The project aims to engage with communities and older people to work in a participative way in both countries and learn more about what really matters, and where evidence is most needed. This activity will enable research to be developed which is co-produced, culturally sensitive and impact generating and learns lessons from experiences in both countries.Three scoping workshops will focus on: engaging community and understanding culture; policy and economic issues and design in the UK (Workshop 1) and Japan (Workshop 2). Stakeholders including people experiencing dementia will be able to take part in these. A third workshop will consolidate the learning from the previous workshops leading to a manifesto for future research. Four Fellowships for early career researchers (ECRs) will provide opportunities for both Japanese (2) and UK (2) ECRs to gain in-depth knowledge and experience. ECRs will be mentored through the process of the scoping studies and the development of the research programme and joint publications.The main output from the scoping work will be a programme of cross national research, built on mutual understanding and agreement about key questions and methods that are realistic and practical in both countries and offer insight into culture-specific and culture-invariant design issues with the populations of interest. The programme will be mindful of funding initiatives as well as future-focused.In addition to completing the scoping work, the collaboration will strengthen and add to the network of researchers engaged in this work from both the UK and Japan. Following completion of the project, keynote lectures open to all researchers interested in environmental aspects of ageing and design in Japan and the UK will be hosted to share the learning from the network.The project will establish a sustainable research and stakeholder network which will take forward collaborative cross-national and cross-cultural research on living environments for people with dementia.