Care Homes
Dementia Signage
Our dementia friendly signage is designed to help individuals living with dementia navigate their environment more easily.
These signs incorporate a combination of clear text and images, aiding recognition and comprehension for those with cognitive impairments. To ensure legibility, the text contrasts sharply with the background, making it easier for individuals with visual difficulties or declining cognitive abilities to read more easily.
In care home environments, signage is much more than functional it becomes a key element in creating an atmosphere where residents feel safe, empowered, and at ease in their surroundings.
Wayfinding
Our wayfinding signs are thoughtfully designed to help residents, especially those living with dementia, feel more at home in their surroundings. Navigating environments can be challenging for those with cognitive impairments, and our goal is to reduce anxiety and confusion by providing clear, accessible guidance throughout the home.
Key design elements include:
- High contrast colors to ensure the signs are easily visible and distinguishable, even for those with vision impairments.
- Clear, concise text paired with engaging visuals to provide straightforward information that residents can easily understand.
- Familiar icons and imagery that evoke a sense of comfort and recognition, allowing residents to associate signs with specific areas or rooms.
These features are carefully chosen to make the signs stand out while enhancing the user’s ability to maintain a level of autonomy and freedom within their environment. By promoting easy navigation, we help residents feel secure and confident as they move through their daily routines.
Wayfinding signage should be used throughout care homes in all areas.
Memory Boxes
Dementia memory boxes are boxes that contain an item or items that are meaningful in some way to a person or environment. This may be a treasured personal item, or an object that someone with dementia can associate with their past. Our memory boxes are clear Perspex boxes that allow the contents to be viewed from all angles.
Memory boxes work on the principles of reminiscence or ‘life story’ therapy. Because the oldest memories are the ones that people with dementia retain the best it can give them great comfort to see and talk about items that trigger those memories.
Not only do they promote reassurance and familiarity, they can help with the practical issue of wayfinding – helping them locate their own space.
False Fireplace
Our false fireplace can transform an otherwise clinical-looking hospital or care home room into something much more welcoming, homely and familiar.
For those living with dementia, this feeling of familiarity can be a great comfort.
Because the images of a burning fire and an unlit one can be easily changed, it can help a person with dementia to connect with the passing of time through the changing weather or seasons.
Doors
When people living with dementia see a door and try to open it, they can often become confused and get upset if they are unable to do so.
To address this, intelligently designed vinyl displays, often translucent at the top to allow light through, can camouflage doors and make them less identifiable as a means of exit.
Retro TV
A Retro TV display is a digital screen with a surround that is designed to look like the post-war TVs that the older generation will remember.
Because the ages of those living with dementia can vary, we offer two styles of Retro TV; a 1950s style model and a 1970s/80s style model.
The footage, with music, runs for 2 hours and is designed to promote nostalgia, in both form and content.