Aged Care and Dementia Murals by Sharron Tancred
Exit Diversion Murals for Dementia, Wayfinding Strategies and Environmental Design that Cares for our Aged
Tailored Artworks custom hand-painted Murals and Exit Diversion Murals for Dementia and Aged Care help you transform your existing spaces into beautiful, soothing interiors they are interactive.
Dementia exit door ideas. We aim to relieve your residents’ stress at dementia exit doors and assist with dementia wayfinding, simultaneously creating a point of difference for your marketing. You care about your residents, and we help you to prove it!
Environmental Design. Tailored Artworks also cosmetically renovates Aged Care facilities for dementia. We use Colour Psychology within our renovations to increase appetites in dining rooms, engage communication within sitting rooms, relaxation in quiet places and peacefulness in theaters.
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Latest Projects
Regis Yeronga ‘Family Mural’ for Dementia
>>The brief: The dementia unit at Regis’s new Yeronga facility in Brisbane needed to replace the existing mural over an exit. The sticker mural of a field of green wasn’t working. Dementia changes over time with sometimes bizarre and unexpected habits...
Beach huts making wayfinding fun!
A dim corridor and a lifeless common room area were the focus of our attention for this dementia way finding project. The solution, a cheerful stencilled chinoiserie and homely door wraps for the corridor and a series of beach huts with cloud skylights and a copper...
Aged Care and Dementia Murals
>>The brief: Vanessa Malady, the head nurse at Coolibah Aged Care contacted us full of excitement after reading the ABC's editorial on us. She was keen to stop dementia exit seekers at two exit door points. First, Vanessa and her manager held a Zoom meeting...
Wesley Mission Sinnamon Park Murals. Exit diversion with Eden Philosophy
Jean Yan, Manager of the Jacobs Court Dementia Unit at Wesley Mission, Sinnamon Park, needed to stop her escape-artist residents getting the better of two fire doors. Determined, Jean saught to create Exit Diversions that improved the hallways in line with the...
Wesley Mission Reid Court Renovation. Environmental design for that out-and-about feeling!
Blog by Tailored Artworks CEO, Sharron Tancred - Space Transformer The usual environmental design for dementia doesn't make us want to visit. Dementia and everything about it pains me; it's just so sad. As an artist and decorator I've studied dementia design to see...
Blue Care Kenmore. Brisbane Dementia Murals indoor and outdoor
>> The brief: Mural A) Turn the outside exit into “something else”, so residents no longer see the door. Mural B) Transform the inner hall into a cosy seating nook. Blue Care Kenmore manager, Cassie, wanted the Sharron’s Blue Care Rothwell fireplace, but with...
Blue Care Rothwell. Aged Care Facility renovations using art
>> The brief: Create A) two murals for dementia in a country style to conceal the main and kitchen exits and B) a beach themed mural to add colour and space to our community café. >> Our strategy: A) Murals for dementia are all about the door architecture...
Regis Aged Care Group. Exit Door Disguises for Dementia in Brisbane & Melbourne
>> The brief: Paint six murals for Regis’ Dementia units in both Brisbane and Melbourne to increase morale and reduce the problem of resident stress and safety issues relevant to their lingering behind doors. >> Our strategy: Colour psychology here...
Queensland Health, Cooinda House. Themed spaces for Dementia
>> The Brief: Help the residents to remember their lives and feel more at home by creating themed spaces for dementia, specifically, the kitchen/dining space and the adjoining ‘nook’. >> Our strategy: Community Spirit was the purpose of this work. Dementia...