Care: Architecture, Dementia, and Community PDF
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This document examines the concept of care for elderly people and patients with dementia in urban settings. It discusses historical perspectives, critiques, and potential design solutions. The text provides a critical review of how societies accommodate the needs of those with dementia. It includes questions for further analysis of architectural approaches to care practices in cities.
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# CARE ## The Olderly - President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal (Infrastructure Investment and Job Act), 2021 - Reconnecting Communities → care work - Karen Kubey - Aging in Place Guide for Building Owners - Social and health services are critical, small changes are important...
# CARE ## The Olderly - President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal (Infrastructure Investment and Job Act), 2021 - Reconnecting Communities → care work - Karen Kubey - Aging in Place Guide for Building Owners - Social and health services are critical, small changes are important - floor texture, level door Knob, grab bars, high carpeting - Shannon Mattern - Deep Mapping the Media City ## History - Poor house/work house - precursing of care homes - elders and orphan all grouped together - Sanitovi um - specialized hospital/convalescent facilities (19th, 20th centuries) - Lunatic/mental asylum - inst where people with mental illness were confined - Dementia people were called lunatics, they were isolate - Dementia village - first opened in Netherlands 2009 - Where patients with Dementia could live normally with support (groceries, theaters, pedestrian street) - Nurses work as part of the villages but they blend in the environment (nurse as cashier) - Design for interaction rather than interaction ## Critiques - Village as trope - idealization and romantization - Theater-like - it feels like a simulation - disguise medical care - But isn't architecture provoking some kind of fictional experience? # Care 1. In "Concealment and Compassion," Sharon Mattern states that cities typically prioritize efficiency over care. Provide evidence from the text that supports her argument. 2. Compare the architectural solutions described by Sharon Mattern in "Concealment and Compassion" and Alexandra Kalita in "Everything You Should Know about Designing a Home for Aging in Place." Give one specific example from Kalita's article. ## Differences between Dementia villages and normal cities - Everything was walkable to prioritize care (it would be hard for people with dementia to be in a car based society) - All the workers were nurses for special treatment - Villages worked without money - Kalita proposes design choices to adapt homes for people with dementia to accommodate them within the society instead of just isolate them in medical spaces.
