Webinar 5: Principle 3 – Access the outdoors

This webinar is for people working in aged care and design. Learn about the importance of spending time outdoors for older people living in aged care.

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Presenters

  • Department of Health, Disability and Ageing host: Genevieve Donnelly | Assistant Secretary, Dementia, Diversity and Design Branch
  • Dementia Training Australia host: Nick Seemann | Environments Specialist and Managing Director, Constructive Dialogue Architects
  • Speaker: Debbie Carrol | Director and Garden Designer | Step Change Design
  • Speaker: Nathan Clausen | Principal | Arcadia Landscape Architecture
  • Speaker: An older person / dementia advocate.

About the webinar

We are collaborating with Dementia Training Australia to host an 8-part series designed to help aged care providers and designers understand and apply the National Aged Care Design Principles and Guidelines.

This session explores Principle 3 Access the Outdoors. Principle 3 aims to support people seeing, accessing and spending time outdoors in contact with nature.

In this fifth webinar in the series, you will learn about:

  • supporting people seeing, accessing and spending time outdoors
  • barriers for older people accessing the outdoors
  • what well-designed outdoor spaces looks like.

For more information and resources, visit Dementia Training Australia’s Environments Hub.

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