“Taming the Chaos of Dementia” Explores How Caregivers Can Help Loved Ones
Human Centric Healthcare Designer, author, and speaker Barbara Huelat announces the release of her third book, Taming the Chaos of Dementia: A Caregiver’s Guide to Interventions that Make a Difference. The title will be released on November 6, 2023.
Barbara Huelat will be in New Orleans on November 6 to accept her 2023 Changemaker Award for her significant impact on the advancement of healthcare design worldwide. Ms. Huelat will have a book signing immediately following the ceremony. The signing will take place at the Center for Health Design Conference and Expo conference bookstore at the Ernest N Moil Convention Center in New Orleans.
Taming the Chaos of Dementia provides a compassionate and insightful guide to those facing the tumultuous journey of dementia, offering solace, support, and practical strategies to navigate this challenging path.
Barbara has first-hand experience caregiving for loved ones with dementia. She was a caregiver to her husband, who battled Alzheimer’s disease. Her book, Taming the Chaos of Dementia, shares her story. “My hope is that this book resonates with other caregivers who, like me, have embarked on this challenging but profoundly meaningful path,” says Barbara Huelat, “Dementia, as I learned firsthand, is a complex and relentless adversary. It doesn’t just affect memory; it chips away at one’s very essence, robbing them of their ability to communicate, reason, and carry out the simplest of tasks. It’s an uphill battle filled with moments of heartache and frustration, but also moments of connection and love that shine through the fog of memory loss.”
Taming the Chaos of Dementia is a culmination of her experience as a caregiver, her life’s work as a human-centric healthcare designer, interviews from other caregivers, and the medical knowledge of her daughter, Sharon T. Pochron, PhD.
The book is a hopeful and practical guide to taming the challenges of dementia, with creative interventions inspired by real stories of sufferers and caregivers alike. This book supports the journey—taken by both the caregiver and the person with dementia—providing loved ones with practical recommendations and enriched with human empathy. Taming the Chaos of Dementia helps ease stress, decode dementia’s visceral world, and supports non-cognitive human experiences. Barbara Huelat offers design interventions that support the family caregivers in functional and emotional outcomes.
Barbara’s background lies in human-centric design. She has created healing environments and solved health challenges for more than 300 healthcare organizations and serves as a healing environment consultant to healthcare facilities, product manufacturers, academia, institutions, and the architectural design community. By placing humanity at the core, her pioneering mindset proves that human-centric designs impact healing, improve the human experience, affect health outcomes, and are cost-effective.
The book is available for pre-order on Rowman and Littlefield.
Barbara Huelat AAHID / FASID /EDAC
Barbara J. Huelat is a prominent Human Centric Healthcare Designer, author, and speaker. Ms. Huelat has created healing environments and solved health challenges for more than 300 healthcare organizations and serves as a healing environment consultant to healthcare facilities, product manufacturers, academia, institutions, and the architectural design community. By placing humanity at the core, her pioneering mindset proves that human-centric designs impact healing, improve the human experience, affect health outcomes, and are cost-effective. She has been awarded the 2023 Changemaker Award by The Center for Health Design, the ASID National Luminary Award for Research 2020, eight First-Place ASID Project Design Awards, and is an ASID Fellow. Her quest to support human health has led to extensive research. She has written three books, Healing Environments: What’s the Proof? Healing Environments Design for the Body, Mind, and Spirit, translated into Chinese, are used by students, designers, architects, and health-care providers and are required by AAHID’s exam. Ms. Huelat’s latest work, Taming the Chaos of Dementia: A Caregiver’s Guide to Interventions that Make a Difference, provides a compassionate and insightful guide to those facing the tumultuous journey of dementia, offering solace, support, and practical strategies to navigate this challenging path. Currently, she shares human-centric designs globally via lecturers at international conferences, universities, and organizations and through research collaborations with government agencies and universities, contributing to white papers and research articles. Always fascinated with the beauty of science and the science of design, she believes human-centric design experiences can mitigate human misery.
Dr. Sharon Pochron
Dr. Sharon Pochron is faculty in the Sustainability Studies Program at Stony Brook University. She runs an environmental science laboratory and has published many peer-reviewed articles on topics ranging from caregiving for dementia to primate behavior to the impact of environmental contaminants on the health of invertebrates. She has also published many nature articles for kids in places like Muse magazine and Highlights for Children.
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