First published in the Journal of Care Services Management, this paper by Damian Utton uses two completed projects to illustrate how the principles of designing for dementia have been successfully applied to extra care housing.
The author asserts that designing for people with dementia is helpful for everybody as everyone benefits from more understandable buildings. Any building for older people, even for people currently without dementia, should be dementia-friendly as it offers a greater flexibility should there be future changes in the profile and needs of the people who live there.