Environments Consultancy
Our award winning consultancy service can help you create a dementia-friendly environment.
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Onsite Education
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Training on how to use assessment tools
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Support for creating changes, big or small
This service may help your organisation meet the Aged Care Quality Standards: Standard 1, Standard 5
A dementia-friendly environment is enjoyable and meaningful.
It takes into account a person’s lifestyle, background and interests, as well as being familiar and recognisable.
About the service
We can discuss how to use an existing environment more effectively, plan a new facility or refurbish an existing one.
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Expert team
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Nation wide
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We come to you
We provide onsite education, training on the use of environmental assessments. We also support staff and leadership to recognise and plan meaningful environmental changes.
We work in acute, residential and community settings across Australia.
The service typically includes a detailed discussion of evidence-based dementia design principles, and an assessment of your facility or plan, with recommendations for improvement.
Meet the team
Architect and Lead Environments Consultant
Nick Seemann
Environments Team Service Manager
Fallon Forbes
Architect and Senior Academic Consultant, Environments
Kirsty Bennett
Senior Environments Consultant
Terri Preece
Environments Consultant
Ashlee Osborne
Environments Consultant
Tara Graham-Cochrane
Environments Consultant
Tara Quirke
10 Key design principles
These 10 principles are the culmination of more that 30 years of research and practice. They are the backbone of the Environments Consultancy Service.
Unobtrusively reduce risk
Provide a human scale
Allow people to see and be seen
Manage levels of Stimulation – Reduce unhelpful stimulation
Manage levels of Stimulation – Optimise helpful stimulation
Support movement and engagement
Create a familiar place
Provide a variety of places to be alone or with others – in the unit
Provide a variety of places to be alone or with others – in thecommunity
Design in response to vision for way of life
Get in touch with the Environments team
Send us your details and we will contact you
at the earliest opportunity
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