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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Neveen Hamza, Stuart Franklin
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of a book chapter that has been published in its final definitive form by Springer, 2022.
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People with Dementia (PwD), suffer from syndromes that progressively deteriorate their physical and cognitive abilities, such as ‘sun-downing syndrome’, ‘wandering’, and in most cases an inability to manage their own thermal environments. Designing and building purpose-built facilities that educate, re-habilitate, provide thermal and visual therapeutic environments is a need for both patients and their carers. Literature suggests that well designed environments influence PwD’s behaviour, attitude, aid in retention of physical abilities and reduction of agitation levels. Given such suggested benefits, there is a need to provide evidence base designs based on environmental psychology theories while quantitively predicting of building environmental performance at design stage. This in turn leads to the use of building performance and Computational Fluid Dynamics CFD tools to assess, wind flow patterns, daylight availability and thermal conditions at conceptual design stage and to test iteration of architectural concepts to provide sensory and sustainable environments.
Author(s): Hamza N, Franklin S, Elkington C
Editor(s): Elisa Pozo Menéndez, Ester Higueras García
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Urban Design and Planning for Age-Friendly Environments Across Europe: North and South Developing Healthy and Therapeutic Living Spaces for Local Contexts
Year: 2022
Volume: 19
Pages: 223-241
Online publication date: 30/09/2022
Acceptance date: 02/04/2022
Series Title: Future City
Publisher: Springer
URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93875-8_11
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-93875-8_11
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/zbz4-gq89
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9783030938741
