This podcast features an edited version from CIHT's webinar -'Designing highways and transportation for people with dementia' held in support of Dementia Action Week 2024.  In this episode you will hear from people living with dementia and from leading experts on how to make our transport network more accessible and inclusive.

The webinar provided an opportunity to launch  CIHT’s new course ‘Designing highways and transportation for people with dementia’. This course offers a new approach, hearing directly from people with dementia, considering experiences throughout journeys and exploring real actions that we can all take to involve and learn from people.  

In this podcast you'll hear from Andy Hyde who created the course content along with other contributors and experts in participative design. You'll hear about approaches that can help you to find the best problems to solve and to do so most effectively, by involving people with dementia. 

CIHT's course - Designing highways and transportation for people with dementia

Useful resources for helping with designing highways and transportation for people with dementia

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Professor Charles Musselwhite  

Charles is Professor of Community and Environmental Psychology at Aberystwyth University with research interests in applying psychology to help us stay connected to neighbourhoods and communities as we age, including transportation and mobility issues. He is the Editor in Chief of Elsevier’s Journal of Transport & Health and Section Editor of Cogent Gerontology. He co-Directs two research programmes, The Transport and Health Integrated Research Network and The Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research. He also Co-Directs Aberystwyth University’s Centre for Transport and Mobility. He has worked on over 45 research projects as Principal or Co-Investigator, bringing in over £25m. He has written over 60 peer reviewed journal publications, over 25 book chapters and 5 books. For more info see: https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/persons/charles-musselwhite

Dr Steve Cassidy

Steve has worked in transport policy, technology, and travel behaviour for over 30 years. Most of his work has been about listening and working with people to design and deliver usable and effective travel information systems, ticketing systems and MaaS services. He has learned more from these conversations than anything else in his professional life. Steve’s Mobility Stories podcast aims to explore the human in transport life and decision making, and his blog about giving up the car led to a number of early MaaS pilots. He is a founding director of MaaS services company Fuse Mobility, and is a non-Executive Director of Lothian Buses Ltd, Edinburgh.

Agnes Houston 

Agnes was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease in 2008 and has since carried out her own research on the effects dementia has had on her own and others’ senses. Agnes has travelled widely, spoken at international conferences, written books and developed an online course about dementia.

Martin Robertson

Martin Robertson has Posterior Cortical Atrophy. "This means my senses (sight and hearing in particular) become easily overloaded. Bright colours, Muzak (Recorded light background music played through speakers in public places), or confusing visions such as mirrors in the wrong place throw me. My long vision is nearly non-existent so signage is confusing unless very clear...". Martin is using his experience and expertise to undertake research into the impacts of demantia on the experience of getting out and about. 

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