Trinity College Dublin
- Start Date: 31 Jan, 2022
- 3 weeks
- Study Content: Videos
Use universal design principles to create hospital spaces that help lessen dementia symptoms and improve overall experiences.
Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
Course Description
This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.
Make your hospital design as accessible and dementia-friendly as possible
Universal design involves creating a built environment that is accessible to all, regardless of age, disability, or other factors. Applying these principles to hospital design, to ensure proper care for individuals with dementia, presents unique challenges.
This three-week course from Trinity College Dublin will equip you with all you need to know about dementia-friendly hospital design. By the end, you’ll be ready to create spaces that foster excellent quality of life.
Apply universal principles to every aspect of hospital design
This course starts with an overview of the principles that should be applied to a built environment intended for dementia care before looking at detailed guidance for specific areas of a hospital.
You’ll also learn more about dementia symptoms, related impairments, and how these impact the way someone experiences a care setting. With these insights. you’ll make better design decisions.
Explore key universal design issues
As the course progresses you’ll look more closely at the design issues that have the most impact on dementia care, including hospital layout and scale.
You’ll see that collaborating with people who have dementia is absolutely imperative, and you’ll be guided on creating helpful environments in key areas across a hospital.
Learn from universal and hospital design experts
This course is based on the Dementia Friendly Hospitals from a Universal Design Approach – Design Guidelines 2018, which were written by Trinity College Dublin and other stakeholders, and co-authored by the lead educator of this course.
With such a strong understanding of how the built environment affects dementia symptoms, you can trust the College to deliver material that will engage and show you how to make a real difference in people’s lives.
This course is designed for hospital groups, architects, design professionals, patient advocates, advisory groups, and anyone else interested in improving dementia care through universal design. No prior experience or qualifications are required.
Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.
Trinity College Dublin
Trinity College Dublin is Ireland’s leading university, ranked 1st in Ireland and 61st in the world (2013 QS World University rankings)
Founded in 1592, Trinity College Dublin has a vibrant cosmopolitan community of 17,000 students, 97,000 alumni and 2,500 members of staff. Students hail from every county in Ireland and 118 countries around the globe and represent a wide range of social backgrounds, age-groups and cultures.
Located in the centre of Dublin, Ireland’s capital city, with a reputation for friendliness, Trinity’s 47-acre campus is home to technologically advanced libraries, laboratories and IT facilities that have been seamlessly integrated into the beautiful historic campus.
Cutting edge research, technology and innovation places the University at the forefront of higher education in Ireland and internationally. A unique educational experience across a range of disciplines in the arts, humanities, engineering, science, human, social and health sciences is offered. Trinity has an outstanding record of publications in high-impact journals, and a track record in winning research funding which is among the best in the country.
This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.
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