ABSTRACT

Long-term care homes could be designed with input from the persons living in those facilities. The narratives and experiences of residents living with dementia often remains a missing element in the conception of space and place. With the loss of voice, long-term care residents experience a systematic reduction of personhood and identity, leaving a crisis of characterization for the voiceless. The exclusion of voice in design fails to grasp the cognitive and affective relationships that transform institutional space into living spaces that promote well-being. In this pilot study, we used a modified version of Hycner’s qualitative methods with a newly designed non-verbal pictogram scale to understand how residents with dementia perceive their personal space. Our results suggest that residents anthropomorphize natural surroundings, which become surrogates to dealing with loss, and their narratives are foundational and reciprocal to the preferential design of space and place and their feelings within that space.

摘要

长期护理院的设计可以考虑居住在这些设施中的人的意见。痴呆症患者的叙述和经历往往仍然是空间和场所概念中缺失的元素。随着声音的丧失，长期护理居民的人格和身份遭到系统性的削弱，给无声音的人留下了一场特征危机。在设计中排除声音无法把握将机构空间转变为促进福祉的生活空间的认知和情感关系。在这项试点研究中，我们使用了 Hycner 定性方法的修改版本和新设计的非语言象形图量表，以了解痴呆症患者如何感知他们的个人空间。我们的结果表明居民将自然环境拟人化，