Footnotes

1. Figures vary across references; these statistics were sourced primarily from Dementia Australia (dementia.org. au/statistics) and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-health/dementia).

2. Richard Fleming helped to develop a number of evidencebased tools that assist designers when designing environments for people with dementia; see dta.com.au/ resources/environmental-design-resources-introduction.

3. Wintringham is a not-for-profit welfare organization founded in 1989 by Bryan Lipmann in response to the frustrations of watching elderly people die in homeless persons’ night shelters because they were unable to access mainstream aged care services in Victoria.

4. The federal government’s Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety was established on 8 October 2018 and the final report (available at agedcare.royalcommission. gov.au) was released on 1 March 2021.