The experience of living in dementia care environments hasn’t evolved in 30 years – and we think it’s time for change. Conversations with disruptive operators, policy shapers, and designers examine how new thinking is shaping the places people living with dementia call home. Each episode, we’ll elaborate on a single pattern of innovation in dementia environments - some focusing on physical spaces, others highlighting care philosophies and procedures. Join Max Winters and Jennifer Sodo, senior living architects at Perkins Eastman, as we seek a wide variety of perspectives on these topics, from across disciplines and from around the world. We hope these conversations will inspire the listener to join us in empowering older adults to live authentically regardless of where they are on their cognitive journey. This is a call to action: let’s make better dementia environments for everyone, together.
Today’s bonus episode wraps up Season 1 of Shaping Dementia environments! We have a discussion with Susan Ryan about what she’s learned during the las...
Today’s bonus episode continues the conversation Max had with Sean Kelly of Kendal. Similar to some of our other guests in this week’s episode, Max as...
We’ve chosen to bookend our first season of Shaping Dementia Environments with the topic of ‘Risk Attitude’, because it was so fundamental to every co...
Today’s bonus episode continues the conversation Jen had with Jude Rabig of Rabig Consulting. She explains the lengths that they went to when designin...
In institutional environments, there is a clear distinction between spaces that are ‘front of house’ and spaces that are ‘back of house’. But as we mo...
Today’s bonus episode continues the conversation Max had with Len Fishman from the Gerontology Institute at UMass Boston. In this clip, Len speaks to...
How do we craft authentic environments for dementia when the population we’re serving is ever-changing and diverse? Join Jennifer and Max as we talk ...
Today’s bonus episode continues the conversation Jennifer had with Jude Rabig of Rabig Consulting. In this clip, Jude speaks to a moving experience f...
How do all the in-between spaces in our lives – not quite public, not quite private – impact our feeling of ownership, pride & community in the spaces...
Today’s bonus episode continues the conversation Jen had with Barbra McLendon of Alzheimer’s Los Angeles. She speaks to some of the things the City o...