what do we know about this topic?; what don’t we know about this topic?; what will my research aim to find out about this topic? 1. Dementia: why is this topic important (evidence)? a. Prevalence (i.e. the ‘market’) b. Burden/quality of life 2. What do we know about treatments for dementia (evidence)? a. Current therapies combine drug treatments, cognitive approaches and lifestyle interventions b. Lifestyle interventions – exercise (very promising) c. Dance as exercise – physiological and psychological benefits d. Barriers to dance as exercise – what stops people with dementia ‘dancing’? e. Could design help? 3. What do we know about dementia and ‘design and dementia’ (evidence: give examples; think in terms of safety, assistive technologies, and as support for therapy). a. Identify (briefly) those therapies which have a ‘design’ element use the table in your review. b. Emphasise that design plays an important role in supporting treatments (for example, well designed memory ‘cues’ for drug therapy; well designed signage for reality orientation) c. Lead to ‘could high-quality design support exercise/dance interventions?’ 4. What do we NOT know about design and dementia (draw conclusions from the review so far – add evidence where necessary) a. What works best and for whom (‘for whom’ here includes severity of dementia) b. How best to support exercise regimes through design 5. What do you aim to find out about dance and design? Now list your research objectives – make them clear and precise. If your review has moved logically and systematically, then the listed objectives should not come as a surprise to the reader (as your drawings of chair adaptations currently do). Advice Make sure each paragraph of your review connects to the previous – you’re meant to be presenting a case which justifies your chosen research objectives, so the arguments must be coherent and connected