Dementia-Friendly Health and Social Care Environments

Dementia-Friendly Health and Social Care Environments
Author: Department of Health: Estates and Facilities Division
Publisher:
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2015-03-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9780113230143

The quality and readiness of the health and social care estate is vital for high quality, safe and efficient health and social care. This HBN sets out the design guidance for dementia-friendly health and social care environments. The design principles and the core design features together with a selection of case studies provide guidance for the development of new design solutions and the adaptation/ extension of existing facilities. HBN 08-02 is intended particularly for those who are new to the topic and also for people living with dementia or their advocates who may be engaged as part of stakeholder engagement processes. It may also be helpful for commissioning organisations, auditors and regulators, giving an overall perspective of the dementia-friendly design issues that need to be addressed

Older Men's Lives

Older Men's Lives
Author: Edward H. Thompson
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1994-06-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780803950801

In this multidisciplinary portrait of men and their concerns in later life, the contributors use both a life course and gendered perspective to point out that the image and self-image of men are continually reconstructed throughout the life cycle. Issues examined include: the position of older men in society and the changes wrought in their status and roles over time; men's relationships to spouse, children, grandchildren and friends; and policy implications.

Lighting and Colour for Hospital Design

Lighting and Colour for Hospital Design
Author: Hilary Dalke
Publisher: Stationery Office/Tso
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780113224913

The quality of the visual hospital environment can have a positive psychological effect on patient recovery and staff performance. This guidance document focuses on the visual environment in hospitals and healthcare buildings, and the use of appropriate colour design and lighting. It was written jointly by BRE and the Colour Design Research Centre at London South Bank University, as part of a Department of Health funded project.

Poems

Poems
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Everyman Chess
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1995
Genre:
ISBN: 9781857157178

Distringuished as both a great novelist and a great poet. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) had a writing career which spanned more than sixty years, concentrating first on prose and then, after publishing his last novel in 1895, on verse. A master of the short lyric and the vivid narrative, Hardy is pre-eminently the poet of remembrance and tender regret for lost happiness; but he is also an ironist whose exquisite descriptions of rural life are the setting for bitingly sharp observations of human frailty.