By Annie Pollock and Colm Cunningham
An inspiring, practical guide packed with global best practices, expert insights, and beautiful photography.
Despite clear health and wellbeing benefits, access to outdoor spaces is often overlooked in dementia care. This book shows why that matters – and how to change it.
With practical advice on garden design, site planning, planting, and maintenance – plus up-to-date dementia design principles throughout – The Room Outside is an essential resource for anyone looking to create inclusive, healing outdoor spaces in care homes, hospitals, community settings, or private homes.
About the authors
Annie Pollock is an architect and landscape architect with more than 40 years’ experience designing outdoor spaces for older people. She has won several prestigious design awards for her work and travelled throughout the UK, Europe, China and Australia as a consultant and trainer. Annie is widely published, including Designing Gardens for People with Dementia for the University of Stirling in 2001. She is currently an Associate Consultant for HammondCare.
Colm Cunningham is the former director of the Dementia Centre, who lead an Australian and international team of over 200 staff involved in research, education and consultancy. He has more than 30 years’ experience in older age care. Colm has studied and written extensively on a wide range of issues about dementia, including design, pain care, hospital care, night time care and intellectual disability. His most recent previous book, ‘Enlighten: Lighting for older people and people with dementia’, was published by HammondCare Media in 2017.
Product details
- Paperback
- Size 25 x 17 x 1 cm
- Published by HammondCare 2018 - reprinted 2021