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Human Factors for Dementia: Evidence-Based Design

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Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018) (IEA 2018)

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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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Acknowledgements

Design Star Doctoral Consortium funded the development of the Design Personas (AHRC PhD studentship). Loughborough University Enterprise Project Group funded the design development work with Building Research Establishment.

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  1. Loughborough Design School, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK

    Charlotte Jais, Sue Hignett & Eef Hogervorst

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Correspondence to Sue Hignett .

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  1. University of the Republic of San Marino, San Marino, San Marino

    Sebastiano Bagnara

  2. Centre for Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety, Tuscany Region, Florence, Italy

    Riccardo Tartaglia

  3. Centre for Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety, Tuscany Region, Florence, Italy

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  4. Fraunhofer FKIE, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Thomas Alexander

  5. International Ergonomics Association, Tokyo, Japan

    Yushi Fujita

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Jais, C., Hignett, S., Hogervorst, E. (2019). Human Factors for Dementia: Evidence-Based Design. In: Bagnara, S., Tartaglia, R., Albolino, S., Alexander, T., Fujita, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018). IEA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 826. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96065-4_6

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