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08.45 Registration and Coffee
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09.00 Opening Remarks from the Chair
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John Cooper,
Chairman, Architects for Health
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09.15 Keynote address
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Dr Finbarr Martin
Acting National Clinical Director for Older People, Department of Health |
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09.30 Living Well in Old Age: International Perspectives
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Maria Parsons, Dementia Lead for Care (Older People), Sanctuary Care
• UK and international policy and research
• The UK’s National Dementia Strategy
• The role of design in promoting and supporting a shift to prevention and early intervention |
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10.00 Breakthrough Approaches to Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease
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John Zeisel, Founder and President of Hearthstone Alzheimer Care
• Non-pharmacological approaches to treating Alzheimer’s Disease
• Harnessing our capacity to understand music, art, facial expressions and touch
• Building memory cues, encouraging independent movement and eliminating frustration |
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10.30 Health Promotion by Design in Elderly Care: A Salutogenic Perspective
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Prof Alan Dilani, director-general, International Academy for Design & Health
• A new paradigm: Shifting the focus from a pathogenic to a salutogenic perspective
• Creating health and wellbeing through design
• Identifying wellness factors in the environment that support health processes
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11.00 Coffee and exhibition
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11.15 Good Evening: The Finnish Experience of Design for Active Ageing
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Mikael Paatela, Sweco Paatela Architects, Finland
• Supporting an independent life through preventive care and rehabilitation
• Providing elderly care services in the same centre
• Respecting the dignity and privacy of the elderly and supporting family communality |
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11.45 Technology: The Role of Telecare in Supporting Independent Living in Old Age
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Dr Jane Hendy, Health & Care Infrastructure Research & Innovation Centre, Imperial College
• Supporting local service redesign through the application of telecare and telehealth
• Integrating the built and technical environment to support independent living choices
• Implementation, access and whole system design |
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12.15 Panel discussion
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12.45 Lunch and exhibition
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14.00 Design & Health Exploratory Workshop
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The Exploratory Workshop provides a forum for an interdisciplinary knowledge exchange that supports innovation in design for elderly care.
The workshop will explore the challenges posed by research and practice into environmental design for elderly care, identify transferability of models of best practice from different disciplines and explore the challenges and complexities in the field and how these can be overcome.
The principal objective will be to understand how the impact of different policies, practices, and philosophies on design outcomes will enhance the health, wellbeing and quality of life for elderly people.
The workshop will focus on the development of a collaborative proposal(s) in the field of environmental design for elderly care, by addressing the following key questions:
• How can research-based design for the elderly best include the elderly perspective?
• How can the link between generating research and implementing its findings in practice be strengthened?
• Why is the research and practice of environmental design for the elderly challenging? How can we embrace these challenges?
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Workshop Leads
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Dr Phil Astley,
Medical Architecture & Research Unit,
London Southbank University |
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Dr Jacques Mizan,
GP and Senior Associate – Health Launchpad,
The Young Foundation |
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Professor Taraneh Dean, PhD
Professor of Health Sciences,
University of Portsmouth |
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15.30 Coffee and exhibition
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16.00 Design & Health Exploratory Workshop Presentations
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16.45 Chair’s Summary and Event Close
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