Over 470,000 Australians are currently living with dementia, and 1.6
million people are involved in their care in some capacity. Most families
find out how specialised the right environment needs to be only once
they're already searching for it.
Dementia-friendly design isn't just a locked door and a quiet corridor. At
Mayflower's Reservoir, Brighton and Pascoe Vale homes, it means secure
rooms suited to different stages of cognitive decline, a dedicated Memory
Support Unit, and activities built around reminiscence rather than generic
group programming — the goal is warmth and familiarity, not just
supervision.
Behavioural changes and communication difficulties tend to increase as
dementia progresses. Care plans that flex with that trajectory, rather
than assuming a fixed level of need, are what make the difference for both
residents and the families supporting them.
Read the full post → https://www.mayflower.org.au/dementia-care
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