SatiSaanti: The Introduction

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), dementia is an umbrella term for a neurogenerative disease with irreversible and progressive symptoms, which include memory loss, mood changes, disorientation, as well as issues with communication and reasoning. Dementia caring is the experience and feeling of a strong positive effect in defining identity in certain places and communities such as home, workplace, and neighborhood. In this case, dementia care produces a new perception and definition of place and identity by introducing the emotional design of distance/place attachment in ageing. Thus, designing is not a static process but requires opening the world for people with dementia. The findings expand how the needs of people with dementia are related to the care professionals, how the capability management from care managers can support the needed environment. In addition, Ainsworth’s work on the quality of attachments has given rise to the suggesting that caregivers are the architects of the quality of attachments, non-attachment and disordered attachment. The research creates new insights that provide original ideas which may have important social, cultural, economic and political consequences. This suggests the condition of an ambiguous society where personal boundaries are shifting, disorientating, belonging to no place, or an unknow ‘home’.