Dementia Friendly Hospital Design – Tallaght Hospital and TrinityHaus, TCD, 2017
3.Literature Review 3.1. Introduction The background material outlined previously in Chapter 2 identifies some of the main hospital design issues in relation to human centred and dementia friendly hospitals. With the above overview in mind this current chapter seeks to examine the literature specifically in relation to dementia friendly hospital design. The review aim and objectives, research questions and review methodology are now described in detail below.
3.2. Literature Review Objectives Primary Objective: 1) Determine the key dementia friendly design issues that have emerged over the last few years; and, 2) Assess the impact of various hospital planning and design approaches and interventions on the well-being of patients with dementia. Secondary Objective: 1) Examine how hospital design can assist family members and carers in their supporting role while accompanying the person with dementia; and, 2) Identify gaps in the evidence and outline topics for future research.
3.3. Scope of the Review Firstly, this review looks at key dementia friendly design issues in the hospital, and while the hospital setting is the focus of this review, design issues regarding other relevant healthcare environments (such as long term residential care) will also be examined. Secondly, the review will examine a range of planning and design approaches and interventions that are recommended or have been implemented to improve the hospital setting. Given the complexity of the hospital environment and the need to ensure that all key locations and building components are considered, the spatial framework of macro, meso and micro levels as previously outlined will be used to structure the review of the various studies:
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