TUESDAY, 17 MARCH, 2020

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Art Shows The Way!

New dementia-friendly art has been designed to help residents find their way around two Perth sheltered housing complexes.

Tayside Healthcare Arts Trust (THAT) in partnership with Perth & Kinross Council commissioned the creative art and design solutions at Carpenter Court and Strathmore Street sheltered housing complexes.

Developed using dementia-friendly principles, the artworks and enhanced design will help make navigation around the buildings easier for the tenants.

Designer Louise Kirby held consultation workshops with staff and tenants to look at themes and colours residents respond well to. Louise devised two plans, appropriate to both complexes. The concept uses imagery that is based around the changing seasons and nature, and reflects the established colour coding system for each floor of the two complexes.

Louise said, “I loved the challenge of using my design skills to improve how tenants find their way around the sheltered housing complexes. Both buildings are very different in size and layout so they require different solutions, but the principle is the same in both. The design elements flow with the established colour coding to provide positive visual markers for people. This has been a great opportunity to see how my design can help people living here.”

Perth & Kinross Council’s housing and communities convener, Councillor Bob Brawn, added, “These are lovely images and we have been getting a lot of positive comments about them from both tenants and visitors. They love the colour they’ve brought to the complexes. They are a great addition to both units and our tenants and staff are really pleased with the outcome.”

THAT promotes the therapeutic value of the arts based programmes to enhance environments, quality of life, and promote social inclusion by empowering individuals to make an important contribution to their health and wellbeing.

For more information about the programme, please contact Karine Neill THAT development officer on 01382 835509.

Contact:

Lyndsey Daun

NHS Tayside Communications

(01382) 424138