Annie Pollock

Director of Landscape Design and Architecture, University of Stirling•http://www.arterre.co.uk/mycv.html

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Annie Pollock, architect and landscape architect, is Director of Landscape Design and Architecture at the University of Stirling’s Dementia Services Development Centre. She has lectured about design for people with dementia throughout the UK and in Europe and Australia. Annie founded the Edinburgh-based landscape practice, Arterre, in 1987. Arterre specialises in design for older people and people with dementia. Its award-winning projects include a show garden for Alzheimer Scotland (Royal Horticultural Show in Scotland 1999); the courtyard garden for the Iris Murdoch Centre at Stirling University (British Association of Landscape Industries National Landscapes Award 2002) and the Dumbiedykes Estate external regeneration, commended by the British Urban Regeneration Association (2007). Annie is the author of numerous books and articles on design and dementia and co-editor, with Mary Marshall, of Designing Outdoor Spaces for people with Dementia (2012). She has recently contributed to Lost in Space - Architecture and Dementia (Eckhard Feddersen, Insa Lüdtke, eds.), to be published by Birkhäuser in August 2014.

The value of well-designed outdoor spaces

How can considered design of outdoor environments promote better health in older people and those living with dementia. The value of well-designed outdoor spaces: Health and wellbeing for older people and people with dementia. Published in Access by Design, Issue 133 (2012).

The importance of going outside

Annie Pollock, co-author of a book on the importance of outdoor spaces for people with dementia, highlights the need for older Australians to spend more time outside. Pollock A (2012). The importance of going outside – and the reasons why this so often does not happen, Australian Journal of Dementia Care, 1(2), pp. 20-22.

Designing for dementia

By design, we can create environments that will enable rather than disable people with dementia. Indeed, environments that work for people with dementia, work for all of us as well as Annie Pollock and Liz Fuggle explain Pollock A and Fuggle L (2013). Designing for dementia: creating a therapeutic environment. Nursing & Residential Care, 15(6), pp. 438-442.