
No more magnolia – and priming the pump for real world research
No more magnolia The brief from Clarion Housing Association – low-cost retrofit solutions to shift a hard-to-find community centre in Penge from institutional to
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No more magnolia The brief from Clarion Housing Association – low-cost retrofit solutions to shift a hard-to-find community centre in Penge from institutional to

Sundowning or dusking – time to rethink the twilight zone? Sundowning, the distress and agitation that affects two-thirds of people living with dementia as

Women may be from Mars, but men get more time in the sun… Looking ahead to International Women’s Day next Sunday, have been wondering

Chocolate-flavoured or the real deal? I love good chocolate. And, having tasted the best, it’s hard to settle for less. But you don’t know

Red – the ‘marmite’ colour? You’d have to have been living in a cave last week to have missed the annual rampage of red

Suffering from Nature-Deficit Disorder? This term, coined by author and journalist Richard Louv in his seminal work ‘Last Child in the Woods’ back in