title: Supportive design for people with dementia.
abstract: A recent King's Fund report, 'Developing Supportive Design for People with Dementia',' describes the positive outcomes of 26 projects completed by 23 NHS Trusts across England under a Department of Health-funded programme, all of which set out to improve the care environment for people with dementia in hospital. Sarah Waller, CBE, RGN, FRSA, who, as programme director, leads the King's Fund's Enhancing the Healing Environment programme team that evaluated the schemes' impact and benefits, describes the main outcomes, and suggests some of the practical ways that estates and facilities staff can support clinical colleagues in improving the care of people with dementia.
mesh_terms: D003704:Dementia; D004739:England; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006801:Humans; D007374:Interior Design and Furnishings; D011787:Quality of Health Care