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Assessment Tools
There are a variety of assessment tools available to help you evaluate environments for people with dementia. Assessment tools based on principles of design provide a better way of understanding the built environment, offering a systematic approach to modifying supportive spaces.
The following tools can be used to collect information to inform a conversation about the strengths and weaknesses of an environment, which can then help to identify areas that have room for improvement. The assessment process should be a team collaboration involving a variety of perspectives. A team could include design professionals, executive aged care staff, senior managers, clinicians, direct care staff, lifestyle staff, as well as people living with dementia and their families.
Environmental Assessment Tool (EAT)
First published in 2003, this tool has been used extensively in residential aged care settings.
Environmental Assessment Tool (EAT)PDF | File size: 60 KBEnvironmental Assessment Tool – Higher Care (EAT-HC)
This tools provides a framework for reviewing environments for mobile and less mobile people living with dementia.
Environmental Assessment Tool – Higher Care (EAT-HC)PDF | File size: 85 KBDementia Friendly Community – Environmental Assessment Tool (DFC-EAT)
This tool can support the review of public and commercial buildings. The assessment should cover the journey from to and from the destination to carry out a particular task (e.g. going to the library, paying a bill).
Dementia Friendly Community – Environmental Assessment Tool (DFC-EAT)PDF | File size: 109 KBIndigenous Environmental Assessment Tool (IEAT)
A resource to assist in the design, construction, ongoing assessment and maintenance of aged care facilities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Indigenous Environmental Assessment Tool (IEAT)PDF | File size: 100 KBEnvironmental Assessment Tool – Acute Care (EAT-AC)
Designed to be used in acute health care settings where patients stay for up to a week. When the stay is longer than a week, the EAT or EAT-HC is the more appropriate tool to use.
Environmental Assessment Tool – Acute Care (EAT-AC)PDF | File size: 92 KBSummary of other Assessment Tools available
If none of the Assessment Tools listed here suit your need, there may be another tool of interest. This summary was extracted from DTA’s Environmental Design Resources Handbook.
Summary of other Assessment Tools availablePDF | File size: 26 KBIf you would like further information on creating supportive environments for people living with dementia please send our team a message.
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