| Item Listing | Designing for Dementia Date: December 3, 2007
A new effort is underway to make life better for people with Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of dementia—and it's not coming from the world of medicine. A professor at the University of Kansas has spent more than 15 years studying how the design of living spaces affects a person’s mood and performance. Keith Diaz Moore and two co-authors published a book that's now been recognized as the most significant contribution to design research and literature in 2007. As past of our series, "Kansas Health: A Prescription for Change", Health Reporter Bryan Thompson spoke with professor Diaz Moore about his research.
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That's Professor Keith Diaz Moore, who chairs the architecture program at the University of Kansas. He was speaking with KPR's Bryan Thompson. Moore is the co-author of the award-winning book, "Designing a Better Day: Guidelines for Adult and Dementia Day Services Centers. More information is available at kpr.ku.edu.
Funding for the health series on Kansas Public Radio is provided by the Sunflower Foundation of Topeka, and by the Kansas Health Foundation of Wichita.
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