P J Care Ltd commissioned Building Tectonics Ltd to design and project manage a 22 bed high dependency registered mental nursing home. The internal design of the nursing home was carefully designed with the full involvement of Buckinghamshire Health Authority, The Alzheimer’s Society and English Partnerships. It uses ideas from ‘Design for Dementia’ and the proposed new government regulations document ‘Fit for the Future’.
The nursing home specialises in providing quality care for people experiencing a decline in mental ability, affecting memory, personality, word finding, thinking, problem solving, concentration and perception. The design had to carefully take these factors into account.
The external design is intended to be domestic in its character and together with its low profile, is intended to be friendly, calm and unimposing.
Despite the fact that many of the aspects dictating the design were new, the project was handed over in May 2001 on time and on budget.
