de Fiddes are excited to introduce you to our new blog page! This is a place where we plan to share our thoughts and reviews on design, architecture, products and the latest cutting edge research.
Our team will be posting regularly on de Fiddes projects, review new and exciting innovations, pass on to you the latest education, share and promote notes of inspiration and show you some fabulous photos from our interior fit outs. Keep up to date on latest products in the market, articles of interest and research findings from our Managing Director, Debbie de Fiddes.
Our blog will not only be an example of what keeps the team at de Fiddes committed to being at the forefront of innovation but a fun place to collect and seek ideas, advice for all things design and even just to share whatever is on our minds.
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Slow Movement is a concept coming from Turtle Gym - a Japanese company whose philosophy is to be like a turtle with slow living and slow exercise. They produce a range of researched backed Aged Care and Dementia friendly gym equipment designed with constant speeds but where resistance changes with the amount of force applied.
Read MoreWe all know there are nurse shortages in Aged Care, and so we were inspired by a government run initiative in Switzerland called ‘Time Banking’. Volunteers “deposit” hours worked looking after elderly people. In return they can use time saved up for their own care later in life. Read more here.
Read MoreThis month’s Deb Talk is on Stimulation. More precisely, how we can create environments that are stimulating, and from an interiors perspective how can the design of the environment facilitate engagement?
Read MoreWith Covid and the flu going around it was only a matter of time before we had to rest and recover. With everything going on we thought we would make this edition of inKIND light-hearted and whimsical for the end of Financial Year. So we have gathered our favourite TikToks from people over 80 on a range of topics.
Read MoreThat loneliness and isolation is one of the biggest challenges to a person’s social, mental and emotional health. Watch as DEB Talks ‘Visitors and Family for Wellbeing’ Our March Video that explores wellness and what we can do to encourage family and visitors to spend more time visiting their relatives in aged care facilities.
Read MoreAt de Fiddes wellness is of great importance. However what wellness looks like in aged care is a little different. Traditional exercise and gyms may not be accessible.
That’s where Sound Therapy comes in. Sound therapy can range from recordings like guided meditations, to beta waves for focus and singing bowls for relaxation.
One wellness tool that caught our eye is the DreamPad Pillow.
Whilst 'wellbeing' is generally considered the experience of health, happiness and sense of purpose1, it is important to realise that it also encompasses you as a whole to combine your physical, mental, social and emotional states2.
Clinical psychologists Dr Matthew Whalley and Dr Hardeep Kaur have created a free resource on helping maintain wellbeing in these uncertain times.
