Our Parents, Ourselves: How American Health Care Imperils Middle Age and Beyond

Silverstein, Julie

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“…It also helps slow down the decline of physical or cognitive health by ensuring the person is not socially isolated. 40 Home is where family is. Home and family are the intertwined components missing from care homes or elderly adult living establishments.…”

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Bettering the Quality of Life for People with Dementia through Family and Intentional Community Living

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Dementia is a cognitive disease that affects the way a person acts and thinks with symptoms affecting their memory, ability to think and other behavioural aspects.Over time, it progresses to a point where the person with dementia becomes dependent on others, usually their families, to perform normal daily tasks. The care can become too much to handle, and a family may realize that the required level of care is more than what they can provide.Design work in the field of dementia care tends to focus on the design specific to institutional healthcare for the person with dementia, without considering the quality of life in terms of sociability. This thesis is focused on researching dementia care through care home examples and living conditions to explore a model in which families can still live with a person with dementia while helping them get the quality care that they need. The goal is to create an innovative hybrid model between cohousing living conditions and dementia villages, to allow residents to have access to support but also to be a part of a larger community that shares values and interests with other residents. By creating a living condition that houses people with dementia with their families, this project aspires to alleviate family guilt when realizing that their person with dementia needs more care than they can iii provide. In the end, we have a project that caters to not only people with dementia but their family members and caregivers as well.v And finally, a warm thank you to my thesis advisor Dr.Federica Goffi, for your constant support, thoughtful guidance and stimulating engagements. You helped me push my scope of thinking outside the box and it resulted into a project that I am extremely passionate about. Your mentorship will always be a part of me.

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Bettering the Quality of Life for People with Dementia through Family and Intentional Community Living

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Our Parents, Ourselves: How American Health Care Imperils Middle Age and Beyond

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Bettering the Quality of Life for People with Dementia through Family and Intentional Community Living

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