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Memory and Being
Mini Dissertation (MInt(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2018.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/68271 Memory and Being Karusseit, Catherine kimvermaak014@gmail.com Vermaak, Kim Institutionalisation Alzheimer's disease Interior Design Healing environment Wellbeing Salutogenic approach UCTD Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-04 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-10 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 Mini Dissertation (MInt(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2018. Healthcare environments in South Africa are designed with the main focus of primarily receiving patient satisfaction and furthermore providing shorter healing processes (Life Healthcare Group, 2017). Medical centres are designed according to functional requirements that ensure their efficacy. As a result they have been established as institutions designed according to established universal standards. This becomes problematic in facilities for people with Alzheimer’s disease. In these facilities, the patients are usually elderly people whose perception of the world and surrounding environments have been reoriented and compromised by a neurological disease (Gramegna & Biamonti, 2017). Patients with Alzheimer’s have not only lost their reference of spatial satisfaction, but also their reference of self-dignity. Alzheimer’s is an incurable disorder. Thus the institutionalisation of these facilities needs to be diffused to directly ameliorate the loss of independence and individuality that these elderly patients experience. This dissertation aims to investigate how to achieve a diffusion of institution and the resulting ill-effects through the thorough investigation of the literature on healing environments and design for wellbeing, including salutogenic design and theory on institutionalisation. A salutogenic approach to design will be taken in an endeavor to design spaces that ensure the wellbeing of the elderly patients residing at the facility. A site for sanctuary to empathetically facilitate this diffusion is identified. A dissertation done by Natasha Laurent in 2014 was chosen, which is located at the disused mining compound in Cullinan, 30 km east of Pretoria. The tangible and intangible heritage of the site will serve as conceptual generator, acknowledging the silence that fills cognitive space through the gradual erosion of the mind as memory is lost. As a theoretical departure, the execution of Aaron Antonovsky’s Sense of Coherence model (1996), and the application of Roger Ulrich’s theory (2001) regarding visual access to natural elements, are both components that are related into design principles that could increase patient wellbeing. mi2025 Architecture MInt(Prof) Unrestricted SDG-04: Quality education SDG-10: Reduced inequalities SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities 2019-01-25T07:13:54Z 2019-01-25T07:13:54Z 2019 2018 Mini Dissertation Vermaak, K 2018, Memory and Being, MInt(Prof) Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/68271> A2019 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/68271 en © 2018 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Institutionalisation Alzheimer's disease Interior Design Healing environment Wellbeing Salutogenic approach UCTD Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-04 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-10 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 Memory and Being |
| title | Memory and Being |
| title_full | Memory and Being |
| title_fullStr | Memory and Being |
| title_full_unstemmed | Memory and Being |
| title_short | Memory and Being |
| title_sort | memory and being |
| topic | Institutionalisation Alzheimer's disease Interior Design Healing environment Wellbeing Salutogenic approach UCTD Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-04 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-10 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/68271 |