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‘Dementia-friendly’ demonstration home open
A new ‘dementia-friendly’ home has been developed jointly by leading building science research centre, BRE, and Loughborough University experts, at the BRE Innovation Park in Watford, ‘to help educate housebuilders, carers, and relatives, on how to better support those living with dementia’. Formally opened on 4 July by Lord Richard Best OBE DL, Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Housing & Care for Older People, the 100 m2 Victorian house has been adapted to cater for different types and stages of dementia, and is aimed at allowing sufferers to live independently. The upper floor has been adapted for the more advanced stages of dementia. The building was developed around the needs of two specific personas (or avatars), Chris and Sally, with the design narrative describing how the building’s features have been adapted to support Chris and Sally as they age well at home. The prototype will be supported by short films created by Loughborough University detailing how dementia affects the pair on a ‘good, ‘average’, and ‘bad day’.
The converted terraced house includes:
l Clear lines of sight and colour-coded paths that help guide people towards each specific room.
l Increased natural lighting. l Automatically controlled natural ventilation. l Noise reduction features, to reduce stress. l Simple switches and heating controls, and
safety sensors in high-risk areas such as the kitchen.
l ‘Homely, simple, and familiar’ interior design to help promote rest and relaxation.
Windows help keep troubled youngsters safe
A ‘state-of-the-art’ residential unit for vulnerable children and adolescents in North West England features Crittall Fendor’s CleanVent security windows. Junction 17, designed by architects Gilling Dod, was commissioned by Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust to provide facilities for 24 inpatients aged between 13 and 17. The unit, in Prestwich, is a Tier 4 CAMHS facility for young people with significant mental health needs, for whom typical symptoms or conditions may include self- harming behaviour and psychosis. Windows in rooms to which patients have access thus had to have an anti-ligature feature. Crittall Fendor said: “The aluminium
CleanVent windows specified complement the modern, non-institutional feel, while satisfying anti-ligature requirements, and providing natural ventilation.” Crittall Fendor
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also supplied doors and curtain walling. CleanVent is ‘a unique, patented, sliding security window’ providing SecureLock access to the protected glazing behind the security mesh. The windows can be internally or externally opened depending on the security level required. The window was developed as a direct result of feedback from NHS Trusts, and following extensive research and testing.
The £300,000 home has been designed by HLP Architects, based on the ‘design for dementia principles’ previously developed by Dr. Rob McDonald of Liverpool John Moores University and Bill Halsall of Halsall Lloyd Partnership. The home will also be used to assist Loughborough University’s ongoing research into how the features are used, with a view to further improving ways to support homeowners with dementia. Other research partners involved include AkzoNobel, John Lewis, Polypipe, and Rockwool.
Britplas ‘package’ for Boothroyd Unit
Britplas has been appointed to supply the window and glazing package to Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust’s new mental health facility in Southport, continuing a relationship between the two organisations which started 12 years ago with the installation of the first ever Safevent windows.
The new £20 million facility is being built adjacent to the existing Boothroyd Unit, currently in use as an acute assessment ward for over-65s with functional and organic mental health problems, and which will eventually be replaced. Britplas’s Safevent Access window, complete with integral blinds, will be fitted to each of the 44 bedrooms. Britplas has also been chosen to provide the whole external glazing package, including curtain walling, doors, and standard casement windows, with design, manufacture, and installation, all tailored to meet the standards required of a medium secure mental health unit. “We are delighted to have such a long-standing relationship with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, and to be working with it again on this new facility,” said Britplas head of sales, Neil Guest. “Rathbone Hospital was the first facility to have Britplas Safevent windows installed, and we have continued to develop the product to ensure that we are still at the forefront of design and usability in the mental health sector.”
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