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Your dementia design toolkit: Light reflectance values (LRVs)
Age related changes and impairments can often make it more difficult for people to understand and navigate a building. However, using a toolkit of non-pharmacological design interventions, you can support our ageing population, and people living with a diagnosis of a dementia, to be more independent. One of those tools is Light Reflectance Value (LRV).
It’s Giving Tuesday—Support People Living with Dementia Today
Giving Tuesday is a global celebration of kindness, a day for people to come together and support causes close to their hearts. This year, we invite you to be part of something truly meaningful at the University of Stirling.
How to create an inclusive Christmas
For most people, Christmas is a time of joy, peace, and spending time with friends and family. But if we really stop to think about it, most of us will at some point feel overwhelmed, emotional and have the increased sense of wanting to get back to ‘normal’.
Addressing the Unmet Needs of Older LGBTQ+ Individuals and Those Living with Dementia
Older LGBTQ+ individuals face unique challenges as they navigate ageing, particularly when living with dementia. Despite significant progress in LGBTQ+ rights, this community often encounters barriers to accessing culturally competent care that respects and affirms their identities. These unmet needs are further complicated by conditions like dementia and HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder (HAND), highlighting the urgent necessity for tailored support and training for health and social care professionals.
PhD Funding Available
The Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, a new Leverhulme-funded interdisciplinary centre based in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, is recruiting 2-4 fully funded PhD studentships to study dynamic relations between place and memory at multiple timescales and levels, and how people navigate together in space and time.
Giving Tuesday
Giving Tuesday is a global celebration of kindness, a day for people to come together and support causes close to their hearts. This year, we invite you to be part of something truly meaningful at the University of Stirling.
University of Stirling Researchers building partnership and collaboration with Kenyan partners
The challenge of dementia in Kenya is under-researched, with very limited data on the prevalence and impact on the local community. The societal implications of an ageing population, the rise of dementia, and the effects of social and economic change are not well mapped and are certainly multi-faceted and complex.
How to create practical and comfortable spaces in care homes using dementia design
A well-designed environment can help feelings of comfort and security by promoting independence, personal identity, enhancing confidence and self-esteem while allowing required care tasks to take place in a dignified way. This might sound like an overwhelming list, but it is easily achievable.
Architecture for Wellbeing vs Wellbeing in Architecture
October’s thought-provoking #DesignPopUp in Edinburgh focused on understanding how design and architecture can contribute to enhancing health and wellbeing in society. DSDC’s Professor Lesley Palmer and Associate Peter Kerr were invited to speak and share their thoughts, amongst a plethora of innovative speakers from industry and academia.
Halloween in Care Environments
Halloween can pose specific difficulties for people living with a dementia. Disorientation, confusion, fear and anxiety can often become part of a person’s presentations, due to decorations, music and sound they hear within their environment.
Queering Up Dementia Care: The Next Steps
University of Stirling’s PhD researcher in dementia studies, John Angel Bond, presented at the 34th Alzheimer Europe Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, this month which was focusing on ‘New horizons – Innovating for dementia’.
First Gold Audit Accreditation in the Scottish Western Isles
DSDC is delighted to announce the first Gold Audit Accreditation in the Scottish Western Isles to Taigh Shophoirt (Seaforth House).
Embracing Change: How a Local Business Champions Dementia Awareness
In the heart of the Scottish Central Belt in Dunblane, a dynamic estate and letting agency is redefining what it means to be a community-focused business. Cathedral City Estates is led by Markus and Gemma who have been married for twenty years, and they want to make an impact for their community members who live with dementia.
University of Stirling works with housing association to bring dementia awareness into the home
A leading Scottish housing association and the University of Stirling are working together to bring dementia awareness into care at home.
8 Considerations to Make When Providing Dementia Care for LGBTQ+ Individuals
Caring for LGBTQ+ individuals with dementia presents unique challenges and considerations due to the intersection of their sexual orientation, gender identity, and cognitive decline.
Here are eight important considerations to make when providing dementia care for LGBTQ+ individuals:
Silver Pride: DSDC speaks at LGBTQ+ event for older people
Around 180 community members attended the unique Silver Pride festival at Kilmarnock’s Park Hotel to celebrate diversity and inclusivity. DSDC Senior Dementia Consultant, Dave Wilson-Wynne, who is also a member of the LGBTQ+ community, attended and spoke at the event. Clip from STV News.
Advanced Dementia Training with University of Stirling Elevates Care at the Future Care Group
Senior Dementia Consultant Dave Wilson-Wynne from the University of Stirling recently led an intensive day of Advanced Dementia Training for a select group of Lifestyle Leads and senior management from the Future Care Group, renowned specialists in dementia residential care.
Visiting PhD student experience in Stirling: Xiaolin Shen
“Hello everyone, my name is Xiaolin. I'm a visiting PhD student at the Division of Dementia and Ageing in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stirling, under the mentorship of Professor Richard Ward. I am visiting from the Design Department at Politecnico di Milano.”
Living well at home
On the back of the commission on the future of long-term care report, published by Alzheimer’s Scotland, we echo the view that people living with a diagnosis of dementia want to live well at home for as long as possible.
Centring the lived experience of dementia within policy, practice, and community development
Centring the lived experience of dementia within policy, practice and community development (ENACT-DEM project) is an ESRC-funded international research project led by a team at the University of Stirling in collaboration with a team in London, Canada and Germany. ENACT-DEM brings various opportunities for greater collaboration and understanding of ageing and dementia in a Western global context.