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Bellfield Age Supportive Benches 
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Bellfield Age Supportive Benches 

The Bellfield Centre, based on the site of the former Stirling Community Hospital, has been the centre of a collaborative arts project. The purpose-built centre provides intermediate health and social care for older people to learn (or re-learn) the skills they need to be independent. 

Part of the arts project saw the redesign and reappropriation of eight park benches from a previous care home. Working with residents, community groups, occupational therapists and dementia specialists, the benches were refurbished and augmented with designed interventions making them more accessible and dementia friendly. 

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Your dementia design toolkit: Light reflectance values (LRVs)
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Your dementia design toolkit: Light reflectance values (LRVs)

Age related changes and impairments can often make it more difficult for people to understand and navigate a building. However, using a toolkit of non-pharmacological design interventions, you can support our ageing population, and people living with a diagnosis of a dementia, to be more independent. One of those tools is Light Reflectance Value (LRV).

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