Dementia-Friendly Environment- Colors

Colors could affect and even alter the way we perceive the world! How we can utilize colors and contribute to a dementia-friendly environment? The aging process involves deficiency in visual effectiveness and especially for people with dementia. Therefore, they perceive colors such as violet, blue, and blue-green to be darker due to the fact that those colors have a shorter wavelengths. Some visual symptoms are due to the aging process while some are in the result of dementia. Researches urged that bright primary colors are much easier for dementia people to distinguish. And because people with dementia have a harder time to perceive the world in a three dimensional perspective, designers can take advantage of bright primary colors to create contracting floors and walls to assist people with dementia as well as ensure safety. However, it is important to be aware that complicated pattern or color variation need to be prevented because people with dementia usually perceive those elements into something dangerous or uncertain such as a hole or something falling down.