Dementia Design Forum

Photo by Jcomp How on earth did I get here? Something we all ask ourselves in a reflective moment, and whilst we’re currently in the Virus lockdown scenario there’s probably quite a lot of reflecting going on. I certainly know how my involvement with dementia design came, about but I didn’t understand how involved I was until I’d been involved for a while! Probably doesn’t make much sense but allow me to explain.  Early 2007, my company was Bupa’s nominated signage provider and a chap called Steve Bradshaw posed the question ‘can you design bedroom signs for our residents with dementia?’   Steve was an estates manager with Bupa and I’d worked with Steve for a couple of years at this point. As a supplier of graphic display products to a number national retailers we were accustomed to unusual requests. To keep clients happy at this level it was always a case of: ‘the answer’s yes, what’s the question?’ So the answer was always going to be ‘yes’ before...