Personalisation - Signage, Memory Boxes and Doorcals

A sterile home without distinctive features is a terrible place to live with dementia as residents are immobilised by their fear of being lost.

Our high quality, personalised signs create a sense of permanence in the way they are constructed and how the information is presented.

Robust and non-reflective, they are a safe, reliable, eye-catching means to tell someone, ‘this is your home’.

Personalised signs should always be present in an environment where people need reassurance that they can identify their own space.

Personalisation is essential for an individual to feel they own some personal space. A place they can call home.

Personalisation protects their ‘home’, reducing the risk the someone else may mistake it as theirs.

A personalised space, clearly identifiable to the owner, promotes confidence that this is their place of safety.

Memory Boxes are an ideal landmark, adding interest to a corridor, providing useful information about the owner and reliably informing them this is their home.

Door-cals can be a worthwhile enhancement too. Though not a personalisation strategy as such, they create valuable differentiation when a corridor might otherwise be filled with identical doors, indistinguishable from each other.  

Thoughtfully employed, individually or as a ‘set’ within a design scheme, these are proven strategies supporting confidence and independence as well as adding character and interest in an appropriate, attractive way.

More importantly, an effective strategy promotes confidence for residents to be more mobile when they know they can successfully identify their ‘home’ when they return. Greater mobility means more activity and promotes improving physical and psychological well-being.