Research & Resources

Evidence and tools for better home life with dementia.

Publications

Artefacts in Action: Facilitating Positive Person Work in Dementia Group Living Environment (03/2025)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-84901-5_8

Rising Lai (DC), Niels Hendriks, Andrea Wilkinson, and Sara Laureen Bartels

Open-Ended Play For People With Dementia (04/2025)
https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713930

Alicia Valencia (DC), Maarten Houben, Rens Brankaert, Berry Eggen, and Wijnand IJsselsteijn

“Living My Home”: How Interior Design Can Enhance A Sense Of Home For People With Dementia (01/2025)
https://hdl.handle.net/11311/1300245

Natsumi Wada (DC), Silvia Maria Gramegna, and Alessandro Biamonti

This Is ‘Home’: Uncovering the Multifaceted Sense of Home via Sensory and Narrative Approaches in Dementia Care (01/2026)
https://doi.org/10.3390/architecture6010017

Natsumi Wada (DC), Silvia Maria Gramegna, and Asia Nicoletta Perotti

Discussing Methodological Gaps in Psychosocial Intervention Research for Dementia: An Opinion Article from the INTERDEM Methodology Taskforce Guided by the MRC Framework (09/2024)
https://doi.org/10.3389/frdem.2024.1458023

Involved HOMEDEM consortium members: Sara Laureen Bartels, Marine Markaryan, and Andrea Nakakawa Bernal

Supporting the Personhood, Citizenship, and Autonomy of People with Dementia Living at Home: A Scoping Review Protocol (04/2024)
https://doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2024.4.0051

Andrea Nakakawa Bernal (DC) and Vamsi Krishna Boyanagari (DC)

Let’s Explore Food: Designing Interactions for People with Dementia to Express Food Choices (12/2025)
http://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.762

Rising Lai (DC), Niels Hendriks, Andrea Wilkinson, and Sara Laureen Bartels

"Weaving Home Over Time": Uncovering Layered Narratives of Belonging Through Participatory Homemaking in Dementia Care (12/2025)
https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.1194

Natsumi Wada (DC), Silvia Maria Gramegna, and Alessandro Biamonti

Exploration of Nighttime Agitation in People with Dementia Living at Home from the Perspective of Informal Caregivers: A Qualitative Interview Study (10/2025)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2025.04.094

Ajda Flisar (DC), Maarten Van Den Bossche, Evelien Coppens, Chantal Van Audenhove, and Jessie Dezutter

Beyond “Sleep Problems”: Conceptual Disentangling of Nighttime Disturbances in Dementia (04/2026)
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ey8nx_v1

Ajda Flisar (DC), Robbe Decloedt, Jessie Dezutter, Evelien Coppens, Chantal Van Audenhove, Jan Van den Stock, Fien Foucart, and Maarten Van Den Bossche

Sleeping with One Eye Open: Lived Experiences of Informal Caregivers Regarding Nighttime Agitation in People with Dementia (03/2026)
https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.27.26349496

Ajda Flisar (DC), Maarten Van Den Bossche, Evelien Coppens, Chantal van Audenhove, and Jessie Dezutter

Translating Person-Centered Care Into Homecare Practice: Challenges and Innovations in Implementing Dementia Policy in Sweden (01/2026)
https://doi.org/10.3389/frdem.2026.1814577

Andrea Nakakawa (DC), Jenny Löyttynen, Daniela Sangiorgi and Lena Marmstål Hammar

Posters and Presentations

Dementia Inequalities and Solutions - Care Ecosystems and Care Models (04/2026)
Keynote presentation during HOMEDEM End Event

Clarissa Giebel, Andrea Nakakawa, and Vamsi Boyanagari

A Wellbeing Approach to Behavior that Challenges - Couplehood and Night-Time Agitation (04/2026)
Keynote presentation during HOMEDEM End Event

Debby Gerritsen, Marine Markaryan, and Ajda Flisar

Material Encounters - Mealtime Activity and Migrants' Needs (04/2026)
Keynote presentation during HOMEDEM End Event

Claire Craig, Rising Lai, and Sunny Tan

Participatory Work: From What Position? - Open-Ended Play and Home-Making (04/2026)
Keynote presentation during HOMEDEM End Event

Sandra Suijkerbuijk, Alicia Valencia, and Natsumi Wada

Design & Dementia Research within the HOMEDEM Network (10/2025)
Symposium with INTERDEM during Alzheimer Europe Conference

Ajda Flisar, Rising Lai, Sunny Tan, Alicia Valencia, Natsumi Wada, Marine Markaryan, Andrea Nakakawa Bernal, and Vamsi Krishna Boyanagari

Relationship, Home, and Everyday Life with Dementia (10/2024)
DCs’ poster presentations during HOMEDEM Training School 2

Marine Markaryan, Rising Lai, Sunny Tan, Alicia Valencia, Natsumi Wada, Ajda Flisar, Andrea Nakakawa Bernal, and Vamsi Krishna Boyanagari

Living, Relating, and Caring with Dementia (01/2024)
DCs’ poster presentations during the Alzheimer Europe Conference

Marine Markaryan, Natsumi Wada, Andrea Nakakawa Bernal, Vamsi Krishna Boyanagari, and Ajda Flisar

Visual Mappings

Visual Mapping during HOMEDEM End Event (04/2026)
CC BY-NC-ND

María Foulquié García from Visuality, commissioned by HOMEDEM

Visual Mapping for INTERDEM Symposium (10/2025)
CC BY-NC-ND

Natsumi Wada

Lecture Recordings

Home, Universal Design and Dementia‍ (05/2025)
Lecture during HOMEDEM Training School 5

Tom Grey

Reimagining Home Care for Older People (05/2025)
Lecture during HOMEDEM Training School 5

Dr. Brendan Walsh and Dr. Helen Rochford-Brennan

Technology and Dementia (05/2025)
Lecture during HOMEDEM Training School 5

Prof. Martin Orrell

Evidence and tools for better home life with dementia.

Publications

Artefacts in Action: Facilitating Positive Person Work in Dementia Group Living Environment (03/2025)https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-84901-5_8

Open-Ended Play For People With Dementia (04/2025)https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713930

“Living My Home”: How Interior Design Can Enhance A Sense Of Home For People With Dementia (01/2025)https://hdl.handle.net/11311/1300245

This Is ‘Home’: Uncovering the Multifaceted Sense of Home via Sensory and Narrative Approaches in Dementia Care (01/2026)https://doi.org/10.3390/architecture6010017

Discussing Methodological Gaps in Psychosocial Intervention Research for Dementia: An Opinion Article from the INTERDEM Methodology Taskforce Guided by the MRC Framework (09/2024)https://doi.org/10.3389/frdem.2024.1458023

Supporting the Personhood, Citizenship, and Autonomy of People with Dementia Living at Home: A Scoping Review Protocol (04/2024)https://doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2024.4.0051

Let’s Explore Food: Designing Interactions for People with Dementia to Express Food Choices (12/2025)http://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.762

"Weaving Home Over Time": Uncovering Layered Narratives of Belonging Through Participatory Homemaking in Dementia Care (12/2025)https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.1194

Exploration of Nighttime Agitation in People with Dementia Living at Home from the Perspective of Informal Caregivers: A Qualitative Interview Study (10/2025)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2025.04.094

Beyond “Sleep Problems”: Conceptual Disentangling of Nighttime Disturbances in Dementia (04/2026)https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ey8nx_v1

Sleeping with One Eye Open: Lived Experiences of Informal Caregivers Regarding Nighttime Agitation in People with Dementia (03/2026)https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.27.26349496

Translating Person-Centered Care Into Homecare Practice: Challenges and Innovations in Implementing Dementia Policy in Sweden (01/2026)https://doi.org/10.3389/frdem.2026.1814577

Posters and Presentations

Dementia Inequalities and Solutions - Care Ecosystems and Care Models (04/2026)Keynote presentation during HOMEDEM End Event

A Wellbeing Approach to Behavior that Challenges - Couplehood and Night-Time Agitation (04/2026)Keynote presentation during HOMEDEM End Event

Material Encounters - Mealtime Activity and Migrants' Needs (04/2026)Keynote presentation during HOMEDEM End Event

Participatory Work: From What Position? - Open-Ended Play and Home-Making (04/2026)Keynote presentation during HOMEDEM End Event

Design & Dementia Research within the HOMEDEM Network (10/2025)Symposium with INTERDEM during Alzheimer Europe Conference

Relationship, Home, and Everyday Life with Dementia (10/2024)DCs’ poster presentations during HOMEDEM Training School 2

Living, Relating, and Caring with Dementia (01/2024)DCs’ poster presentations during the Alzheimer Europe Conference