Improving environments for cognitive impairment

Professor Fleming began his clinical career in England’s first Community Psychology Service. In the 1980s he played a major role in the deinstitutionalisation of psychiatric services in NSW, then established the HammondCare Dementia Services Development Centre, helping pioneer new approaches in development and delivery of residential services for people living with dementia. In 2010 he was appointed a Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health at the University of Wollongong. Professor Fleming has published papers on environmental design, reminiscence therapy, reality orientation, depression, assessment of the elderly and service evaluation, and he is the principal author of books on care planning for people living with dementia and environmental design.