<>These Home Design Guidelines are a first step in the process of raising awareness and inspiring people to think differently about the benefits of Universally Designed homes and the potential opportunity to address some of the global challenges society faces by future-proofing our homes through embracing Universal Design thinking.

When home environments are people-centred in design, convenient and a pleasure to use, everyone benefits. Simply put, Universal Design is good design. <<<<

Our capacity to recognise places and imagine them from alternative points of view is thought to depend on the hippocampal formation, a part of the brain that is affected during the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease. The Four Mountains Test, developed at UCL and the University of York, is a simple test of this ability and of individual variation in healthy people and patients. <<<

HIS is a scale used to differentiate patients with multi-infarct dementia from Alzheimer's. This is a meta-analysis of pathologically verified cases.

NEJM: Mild Cognitive Impairment http://is.gd/8Z5kz5

Nice blog on coping with dementia from

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone. It seems to me there's hardly one family in this country that is not touched by the disease somehow. But people don't talk about it because it is so frightening. I swear that people think that if they say the word they're summoning the demon. It used to be the same with cancer.

Lack of dissent is not informed consent. (compliant not capable)