People with dementia often move to an assisted living facility or nursing home if more care is needed. However, the relocations could be stressful experiences. The Flexible Care-village is designed for people in an early, middle and late stage of dementia, so that people experience less relocation stress. Since the sense of home could mitigate relocation stress, the research focused on enhancing the sense of home in a care facility by considering factors in the form of a strategy. Both architectural and location specific factors could influence the sense of home that reduces the stress. The design was located in a village that has certain lifestyle characteristics which were taken into account. The research outcome of dementia stages, architectural- and location specific factors and adaptability resulted into a strategy that was used for a design in a neighborhood in Emmen. Adaptable spaces provide the possibility to stay in the same dwelling within the care facility during the whole process of dementia. The main research method used was a Delphi-study. 8 architectural firms participated to gain knowledge about the factors influencing the sense of home and to test the design and validate the strategy. 

Student: Bart van den Boomen 
Tutor: Maarten Willems, Masi Mohammadi, Leonie van Buuren