Designing homes for healthy cognitive ageing
DESCHA aims to provide useful tools and insights for a range of beneficiaries.
For example, policymakers will have access to the high quality and evidence based information necessary to make key decisions about housing, as well as design professionals involved in constructing new-build and retrofitting homes.
Additionally, local authority and third sector workers will have access to a range of tools to identify adaptations that might support an older person to continue living well in the home they prefer.
Finally, older people themselves will benefit from a multi-disciplinary, multi-faceted effort to identify practical, scalable solutions that support them to live in the ways that they choose for as long as possible.