INTERIOR DESIGN SOLUTIONS
one of the most comprehensive ranges available, providing your building with first-class protection, while helping to enhance its visual environment. When it comes to care homes and other facilities for the elderly and those with dementia, our service benefits from a profound understanding of the importance of inclusive design, ensuring that each building can be easily accessed and used by as many people as possible, regardless of age or disability. This capability is underlined by the fact that we have worked closely with the Dementia Services Development Centre at the University of Stirling. The Centre has completed an assessment of the full Gradus range of wall protection products, carpets, matting, stair edgings, skirtings, and floor trims, for use within dementia- inclusive environments.
Gradus wall protection in a birthing room.
to portray any design the customer wishes, such as the relaxing landscapes that have been shown to soothe and comfort patients, thus aiding their recovery. Another creative option is a textured sheet solution that can be cut into bespoke designs, combining functionality with aesthetics, and in this way offering endless design possibilities.
A full, integrated service At Gradus, we have been involved with contract interior solutions for more than 50 years, and have a wealth of experience in using wall protection to enhance and protect healthcare facilities. The largest UK wall protection manufacturer, we offer
Whatever your type of healthcare facility, we will ensure that your healthcare building gets the wall protection it needs. Our team of expert advisors can provide you with a free building survey service, which will see them use their product expertise to identify the most vulnerable areas within the building, and recommend protection where it is required. Alternatively, for total peace of mind, our full supply and installation service can support you from initial enquiry and specification, through site survey and manufacture in our Cheshire factories, and all the way to installation at your healthcare facility.
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Maria Morgan
Maria Morgan is the Product Marketing manager for Wall Protection at Gradus, the UK’s largest manufacturer of wall protection solutions. She has recently worked closely with the Dementia Services Development Centre at the University of Stirling, overseeing its assessment of Gradus’s full range of products for their suitability in dementia-inclusive environments. She has worked in the construction industry for over 25 years.
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2 NHS Statistics, facts and figures. NHS Confederation, 14 July, online [
https://tinyurl.com/y56lssdk].
3 Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing. The Short Report, 2017. All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing [
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