Everyday use of the garden at home by people living with dementia: A multi-site ethnographic study

痴呆症是一种晚期和神经退行性疾病，目前尚无药物治愈。英国约有85万痴呆症患者，其中约三分之二的人住在家里：家庭护理人员是这种生活安排的主体。建筑环境对生活质量和福祉具有可衡量的影响，具有独立性，功能性和社会存在的重要属性。然而，最近的一份报告由护理和维修英格兰估计，只有7%的家庭包括基本的无障碍设计功能，支持安全，独立的老化。具体来说，对于痴呆症患者，英国政府在其最近关于住房和老龄化的Focal Review中发现，日常住宅和其中的技术并没有设计成既响应又支持有生活经验的人，这一发现与其他研究一致。通过使用感官和定性社会研究方法的深入研究，这位博士将与痴呆症患者一起工作，家庭照顾者和CASE合作伙伴报告这种现象，并归纳开发一套初步的循证设计准则，以进一步的实证测试和完善。

Dementia is a terminal and neurodegenerative condition for which there is currently no medical cure. There are around 850,000 people with dementia in the UK with around two-thirds living at home: family carers are the mainstay of this living arrangement. The built environment has a measurable impact on quality of life and wellbeing with independence, functionality and the ability to be social being important attributes. Yet, a recent report by Care & Repair England estimates that only 7% of homes include the basic accessible design features that support safe, independent ageing-in-place. Specifically, for people with dementia, the UK Government, in its recent Foresight Review on housing and ageing, found that everyday homes and the technologies within them have not been designed to be both responsive and supportive for those with lived experience, a finding consistent with other studies.Through in-depth study using sensory and qualitative social research methods, this PhD will work alongside people with dementia, family carers and the CASE partner to report on this phenomenon and inductively develop an initial set of evidence-based design guidelines for further empirical testing and refinement.