Become a True Doors Partner
Do you want people to feel more at home in long-term care?
Installers
Professionals with demonstrable experience applying large format vinyl wraps.
Senior care design specialists
You already provide design solutions that complement True Doors for long-term care homes in your area.
Consultants
Your main work is guiding organisations that aim to provide better person-centred care.
Are you based in one of these areas?
Installers and Senior Care Design Specialists
We are looking for installers to partner with in:
- Australia - New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia
- Canada - Alberta and British Columbia
- France - Paris region, Nice and Cannes
- Germany - Nordrhein-Westfalen
- United States - All areas
We are looking for senior care design specialists who create spaces to help elders feel at home and engage meaningfully with their environment and serve customers in:
- Australia
- France
- Germany
- United States
Person Centred Care Consultants
We'd like to work with person-centred consultants who help guide organisations through culture change programmes. In particular, people who have followed courses in dementia care design (such as during the online masters from Stirling University, Scotland), dementia care mapping (such as from Bradford University, England), and narrative care (such as by St Thomas University, New Brunswick, Canada).
People familiar with general household models, like Butterfly, Eden and Greenhouse, as well as consultants involved with Montessori and Planetree approaches, are also a good fit for supporting person-centred True Doors projects.
We're especially interested in working with people who can demonstrate this type of knowledge and skills and are based in the United States.
Examples of Partner Profiles
Carolyne Taplin
Culture Change Consultant
Victoria, Australia
Over ten years ago Carolyne’s mother, Margaret, started to become confused and have difficulties with finding her way home - she was diagnosed with mixed dementia. And Carolyne began her association with dementia friendly communities and culture change in assisted living facilities. Alongside True Doors Carolyne works as a facilitator for Dementia Australia and is also an Eden Associate. We began our cooperation early in 2017.
Carolyne’s first project at Mercy Health Aged Care Bendigo took 6 months to complete. Carolyne was deeply involved in all aspects of the project and took pictures of residents previous doors. In the picture above Carolyne is pictured with her husband, John, who helps out when there are decals to be applied at homes around Victoria state.
Read about the results from the first year of projects 2017-2018.
Ashley King & Daphne Noonan
Person Centred Universe
Atlantic Region, Canada
Ashley and Daphne are co-founders of Person Centre Universe (PCU) whose mission is to empower aging communities through education and mentoring to strengthen the person-centred values in care. Alongside PCU they work as executive directors at separate nursing homes in New Brunswick. We began our cooperation in summer 2018.
The first project at Nashwaak Villa project took 6 months to complete, weaved Elder choice, community involvement, and life stories into the project.
What do we offer?
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Installers invoice homes directly for each project, we ask for a 5% finders fee. Upto 15% of revenue on each project introduced and supported by consultants / design specialists / installers. |
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| Partner Toolkit Resources to help you ensure successful person centred projects. |
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| Guidance
As it's needed |
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| Making a difference A sense of fulfillment from improving elders' quality of life and fostering culture change in long-term care. |
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| Online Application
We'll respond within 48 hours |
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| Sign Partner Agreement
To ensure expectations and commitments are clear upfront. |
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Learn More About True Doors
A introduction video and links to helpful resources.
The Help section of our site hosts videos aimed at non-professionals who want to understand how-to to apply True Doors. If you're an installer by profession you want to take a look before applying to the partner program.
If you are a design specialist you may find it helpful to read this report to understand our perspective and decide whether it aligns with yours.
How Personalising Interiors Improves the Lives of People with Dementia
The Trimbos Institute is the Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction. This report summarises their findings from one of our first projects in 2015. It's a great resource for consultants in person-centred care wanting to orient before reaching out.
Trimbos Institute Report - An exploratory Study on the Value of True Doors for People with Dementia