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Helping people with dementia feel at home

Create a home-like environment with dignified dementia design

A True Doors ® webinar

Why take part

This free 30-minute webinar is for aged care professionals, interior designers, and architects in Australia who welcome help with dementia design and would like to transform the physical environment at aged care facilities into a more home-like atmosphere in order to experience all the benefits this entails.

Register

Wednesday, June 15 2022, 14:00-14:30 AEST | 12:00-12:30 AWST

All registrants receive a recording of the session and a package of inspiring ideas and examples of projects.

Webinar outline

Familiarity, reminiscence, orientation

Following a short introduction, Sharron Tancred, owner of Brisbane-based The Mural Shop will take 10-minutes to share examples of projects applying best practice knowledge of crafting an environment for dementia care.

Sharron’s work relieves behaviourisms, anger and frustrations surrounding keypad locked exit doors and cupboards. She crates Exit Diversions and Disguises tailored to your architectural dimensions that provide meaningful and interactive sensory experiences that will enhance your interior décor style.

Exit door disguises and diversions save your staff time managing your residents urge to escape.

Way-finding, orientation, and privacy

Rahzeb Choudhury co-Founder of True Doors will then take 10-minutes to introduce True Doors, decals that are a uniquely effective design solution, transforming impersonal hallways - where elders spend a great deal of their time - into welcoming, comfortable, and loving neighbourhoods with homes. He will share examples from Australia and abroad to demonstrate benefits such as way-finding, orientation, and privacy.

We’ll end with Q&A.

Following the webinar, we will share a package of inspiring ideas and examples for further orientation and reference.

Speakers

Sharron Tancred

Owner, The Mural Shop

I live in Brisbane, Australia, on a lake near Moreton Bay. I love to joke, a glass of wine, a good chinwag, a laugh and being silly with my two girls; one should never be too old to be silly! Also, I am an Artist, Decorator, Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Colour Psychologist.

Since 2009 I have worked with Aged Care Managers to custom design and hand-paint Murals for Dementia Exit Doors. In the same vein, in Brisbane, we have been done Cosmetic Renovations for Aged Care facilities implementing design tailored to your resident’s viseo-spatial perception as shared with us by dementia experts.

Then, since 2017 I have expanded our hand-painted services to meet Australia wide demand with custom-printed exit-door wraps through our e-commerce platform themuralshop.online. I look forward to meeting you!

Rahzeb Choudhury

Co-Founder and Executive Director, True Doors

Rahzeb is the founder of the platform company Lifelong Inspiration, which focuses on advancing person-centredness in commerce and society through strategy and technology solutions consulting and product or service development. In long-term care, Lifelong Inspiration is most well known for True Doors®, decals help that improve the lives of people with dementia. True Doors began as a social art and life story project and is now a respected brand adopted from Tasmania to Vancouver.

Rahzeb has been a London city banker, market trend analyst, and globe-trotting language technology entrepreneur. He and his family are based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.