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...

Strange times indeed! It is an odd coincidence I'm creating this on the 26th anniversary of a very significant day because on this day in April 1994 I started my own business. But today will be memorable in it's own right, not because I've started a blog of course, but because we're currently in lockdown in our fight to defeat the Corona virus or Covid 19 as it's also called.  In the last few weeks this has replaced Brexit as the subject dominating all forms of media outlet in the UK, but this time it is quite literally a global issue. This may seem distinctly uninteresting if you're reading this today for the reason I've just mentioned - Covid 19 IS the news subject of the moment. It's everywhere. But it seems right to record this as it's so significant and because it is probably the reason I've managed to get around to setting this up. But also because when anyone reads this in the future, even if it's only me, it will act a...