Designing care environments for people living with dementia is a complex challenge as the key stakeholder may have difficulty communicating their capabilities, limitations and preferences. This paper describes the use of evidence-based design personas in a multi-disciplinary team with architects and chartered human factors specialists. Four individual personas (Alison, Barry, Christine and David) and a couple persona (Chris and Sally) were used to bring the voices of the people living with different stages of dementia to the design process. Their changing/fluctuating symptoms were communicated in two formats (wheel and matrix) within an inclusive design process to adapt a Victorian semi-detached house. The demonstrator house presents evidence-based design, adaptation and support solutions to support people living with dementia to age well at home.
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Jais, C., Hignett, S., & Hogervorst, E. (2019). Human factors for dementia: Evidence-based design. In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (Vol. 826, pp. 36–43). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96065-4_6
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