Dementia Friendly Service – DementiAbility & SensoryScapes

Creating familiar, engaging, and meaningful spaces for people living with dementia

• Spruce Lodge has adopted the DementiAbility® model of care and is in the process of providing training to staff that focuses on abilities, not limitations, and on people and not tasks.

• We are enhancing our Cottage neighbourhoods to be more familiar, engaging, and supportive for residents living with dementia

• Working with SensoryScapes to introduce recognizable scenes, décor, and visual cues in hallways and sitting areas

• Installing door skins to replicate

• Improving lighting to support daytime alertness and calmer evenings, with adjustable, dementia-friendly controls

• Repurposing underused utility areas into engagement spaces, such as:

  • Tinkering and tool-based activity areas

  • Children’s nursery or daycare area

  • Hands-on activity centres that reflect residents’ lifelong interests

Project Cost: The total project cost is $400,000, however thanks to the generous donation of Windmill Gardens Seniors residence, the balance remaining is $175,000.

Your generosity helps create environments that feel familiar, purposeful, and comforting; places where residents can truly engage and belong.

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