Lanka Alzheimer’s Foundation featured in World Alzheimer Report 2020

The state of the art activity centre of the Lanka Alzheimer’s Foundation (LAF) in Maradana has been featured in the World Alzheimer Report 2020 for its unique design and features that support people with dementia. The centre, opened in 2011, a brainchild of Lorraine Yu, the founder Director of LAF, is an eco-friendly and people-centred building with landscaped gardens.

Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) launched the World Alzheimer Report 2020 on September 21, 2020 – focusing on design, dignity, dementia: dementia-related design and the built environment.

The World Alzheimer Report 2020 looked at progress to date, pioneers and innovators, design principles, application, regional and cultural contexts, and the importance of including people with dementia in all aspects of design, and poignantly the role of design during the coronavirus pandemic and beyond.

Across two volumes, including 84 case studies, the report looked at design in home/domestic settings, day and residential care, hospitals and public buildings and spaces. 

The LAF centre was featured in the report based on the following:

• Safety
• Good lines of sight to help people living with dementia to see the key places they want to go to
• Good lines of sight for supervision of people living with dementia
• Familiar furnishings
• Easily found and unobstructed access to a garden, courtyard or outside space
• Opportunities to bring in personal items
• Being designed with a specific vision of how people living with dementia should be supported.

The Report also carries the plan and layout of the Centre and pictures of the Activity Centre.