“Why aren’t care home gardens more actively used?”
A half day Workshop for Garden Designers, Landscape Architects and other Outdoor Specialists to explore the reasons why the gardens around care settings, particularly for people living with dementia, are not used to their full potential.
Presented by:Debbie Carroll from Step Change Design Ltd.
Date: Thursday 16th February 2017
Time: 9.30am - 1pm, arrive from 9.00am
Venue: Bevendean Room,The Bridge Community, Lucraft Road, Brighton BN2 4PN
About the Workshop Leaders
Debbie Carroll and Mark Rendell are co-directors at Step Change Design Ltd. They have more than 20 years of professional garden design, consultancy and horticultural experience between them, with particular expertise in designing spaces for health and care settings. In 2013 they designed and self-funded a large-scale research project with the participation of 17 care homes across England and Wales into why gardens in care settings, particularly for residents living with dementia, were not more actively used, even when they follow the latest design guidance. They went on to identify the pivotal role of care home culture in the engagement of the outside space and then produced a set of comprehensive and insightful findings in the form of an innovative and interactive diagnostic tool for the care sector, called The Map, which they will present at this workshop.
The Workshop will:
1.Describe the research methodology and journey that involved crossing the threshold back into the care home settings to find the answer to their original question, “Why aren’t care home gardens more actively used?”
2.Summarise the Top 10 Key Findings from the research for the design sector.
3.Provide an overview of the new practical and diagnostic tool, The Care Culture Map, and show how it is intended to assist care homes to better brief garden designers on the home’s current and anticipated needs and ensure they support the home appropriately in creating an active and cost effective outside space.
4.Produce a handy and easy-to-use Checklist that aims to reduce gimmicks in the garden, infantilising approaches with residents and the risk of turning the outside space into a fixed and unadoptable space.
5.Review the relationship between garden designers (and other outside specialists) and care home staff outlining responsibilities of Relationship-centred design.
Who should attend?
Garden Designers, Landscape Architects and Outside Space Specialists with an interest in, or existing practice, providing design support for care homes and other health and care settings, particularly for residents living with dementia.
What the Workshop will not cover:
While this session may discuss specific elements and aspects of current design guidance for dementia, it will primarily focus on the findings from the major research study carried out by the Garden Designers. This session will aid the Garden Designer to work more effectively with their current and future care sector clients in supporting them on a cultural journey towards greater relationship-centred care. The outcomes of the research and the diagnostic tool are now being rolled out to support the Care Sector in becoming more active in the garden.An article on the research findings has been published in the Journal for Dementia Care, March 2015.
What to bring:Notepaper and pen, or laptop / tablet
What is provided: A Certificate of Attendance, A Handout summarising the Top Ten Key Findings for the Design Sector and information about the garden designers’ services through their organisation, Step Change Design ltd.
Each delegate attending this course will be entitled to a 20% discount on the Care Culture Map & Handbook. A discount code will be issued following payment linked to the email addresses given for each delegate and will be valid for 1 year from the course date. If this is ordered within 5 working days of the course this can be delivered to you on the day so avoiding postage and packing costs too. Orders should be made via the website where the discount code can be entered.
Workshop Fee, per delegate: £65
Payment is required prior to the course date.
Please note: No refund will be given for cancellations. Full refunds will be given should the event have to be cancelled for any reason. No tickets are sent out for this event.
Please note: Step Change Design Ltd is not VAT registered.
For further information about the Workshop, and to book your place(s), please contact us at:
or telephoneDebbie on: 02380 685193 / 07821 546950
or Mark on: 01766 530824 / 07780 920653
Or visit our website for more information:
Directions
Full details for getting to the venue can be found at
Parking
There is plenty of free parking at this venue.
Refreshments
Tea/Coffee and biscuits will be provided on arrival and during the session. For those wishing to stay on for lunch following the training there is an on-site Café offering a range of meals and snacks. Some of the produce has been grown on-site as part of the work of The Bridge Community project. Debbie is intending to stay on so this is an additional opportunity to network for those who wish to stay.
Booking Form
“Why Aren’t Care Home Gardens More Actively Used?”
Half Day Workshop for Designers
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Please note: No refund will be given for cancellations. Full refunds will be given should the event have to be cancelled for any reason. A waiting list will operate if the Workshop is oversubscribed. No tickets are sent out for this event. Step Change Design Ltd is not VAT registered.
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Additional Participant(s)
Where more than one person from your organisation is booked onto the Workshop, please add their details to the form overleaf to assist registration and the provision of Workshop materials. All communication prior to the course will be via the person named above unless separate contact information for each participant is provided.
Additional Participants’ Booking Form
“Why Aren’t Care Home Gardens More Actively Used?”
Half Day Workshop for Designers
Date:
Event code: DH160217DC
Additional Participant Name(s): / Role / Job Titlein your organisation / Contact phone number / email
NB: An Email address is required to be able to obtain a Discount Code for the Care Culture Map & Handbook for each delegate. If this is not possible please contact us so we can make alternative arrangements.
Co-directors contacts:
Debbie Carroll Tel: 02380 685193 07821 546950 Email:
Mark Rendell Tel: 01766 530824 07780 920653 Email:
Registered Address: Kemp House, 152 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX
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