Design for Dementia, Mental Health and Wellbeing 9781032331188

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Psychology books

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Wordery

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Taylor & francis

Design for Dementia, Mental Health and Wellbeing : Routledge : 9781032331188 : 1032331186 : 22 Jul 2024 : This edited volume offers the first overview and reflective discussion of how design can contribute to people's wellbeing and mental health in the context of dementia, mental illness and neurodiversity. This book explores and promotes holistic, salutogenic and preventive strategies that recognise and respond to people's needs, wants, wishes and rights to further health, wellbeing and equality. Bringing together years of experience as designers and clinicians, the contributors to the book emphasise how design can be a collaborative, creative process as well as an outcome of this process, and they reveal how this is guided by mental health and design policy. Through its three parts, the book explores themes of ethics, citizenship and power relationships in co-design, providing an overview of current developments and approaches in co-design; of the culturally and value sensitive adap

135 GBP