For those suffering from Alzheimers disease, even the home environment can be a threatening and unfamiliar place.
Dementia alters our perceptions of space.
A few sparkles in some linoelum can transform a kitchen floor into a sea of water and a horizontal line running across the same floor can look like an abyss. But now architects are designing specifically for people with dementia to improve the quality of life for sufferers. Demolished Houses Alan speaks with Joy Hughes, curator of a new photographic exhibition which remembers some of the many fine examples of domestic architecture which have been lost through urban expansion in Sydney. The exhibition is now open at Sydney's Hyde Park Barracks. Cusines, like species, can be endangered.