Design Innovations for Aging and Alzheimer's: Creating Caring Environments - Hardcover

Brawley, Elizabeth C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471681180 ISBN 13: 9780471681182

Publisher: Wiley, 2005

Synopsis

As our understanding of aging and Alzheimer's, and the cultural changes related to these phenomena, grows so do the implications for interior design. Focus on recent innovations in care environments for the aging with a resource dedicated to this topic. This comprehensive book features:

• Coverage of the emerging building types of adult day care and hospice and the increased use of gardens and outdoor space in environments for the aging.
• Material on sustainable design and environmentally friendly building products.
• Design solutions that extend beyond assisted-living facilities and nursing homes as they can be easily adapted for residential use.
• Photographs, line drawings, and a 16-page color insert that bring the material to life.

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About this title

About the Author

ELIZABETH C. BRAWLEY, IIDA, AAHID, is President of Design Concepts Unlimited, a San Francisco-based firm that specializes in designing living environments for older people and settings for Alzheimer's special care. She is a past member of the national board of directors for the Alzheimer's Association and has gained international recognition as an expert and industry leader in the area of environmental design for aging. She is the author of Designing for Alzheimer's Disease: Strategies for Creating Better Care Environments (Wiley), which was awarded the Joel Polsky Prize by the American Society of Interior Designers in recognition of her outstanding contribution in the area of research in environment and Alzheimer's disease.

From the Back Cover

"Betsy Brawley's book is full of new insights, research outcomes, and design models. A must-read for anyone dealing with the impact of environment on older people it belongs in every designer's bookcase."
Victor Regnier, FAIA Professor of Architecture and Gerontology University of Southern California author of Design for Assisted Living (Wiley)

"Betsy Brawley offers practical, cost-conscious yet aesthetic alternatives to the toughest issues in design for residential and group activity environments. Families, architects, design professionals, and health care professionals have much to learn from her inspired multidimensional approaches."
Lisa P. Gwyther, MSW, LCSW

Education Director Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Duke University Medical Center

We have learned much in the past decade about designing supportive care environments for aging. Design Innovations for Aging and Alzheimer's is a detailed guide for a broad range of design issues essential to maintaining independence and functional abilities, maximizing mobility, staying socially connected, and encouraging good health. It features:

• More than 200 photographs, plus a full-color insert
• The latest information on sustainable design and environmentally friendly building products
• Practical design solutions that are easily adapted for residential use
• In-depth strategies for lighting, daylighting, color, fabrics, floor covering, acoustics, wayfinding, furnishings, new technologies, and more
• Extensive information on how cultural changes are humanizing long-term care as well as adult day care, Planetree, the Green House Project, and hospice care
• Specific design suggestions for designing therapeutic gardens and outside environments for maximum pleasure and use

Betsy Brawley offers practical, cost-conscious yet aesthetic alternatives to the toughest issues in design for residential and group activity environments. Families, architects, design professionals, and health care professionals have much to learn from her inspired multidimensional approaches.
--Lisa P. Gwyther, MSW, LCSW

Education Director Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Duke University Medical Center

We have learned much in the past decade about designing supportive care environments for aging. Design Innovations for Aging and Alzheimer's is a detailed guide for a broad range of design issues essential to maintaining independence and functional abilities, maximizing mobility, staying socially connected, and encouraging good health. It features:

• More than 200 photographs, plus a full-color insert
• The latest information on sustainable design and environmentally friendly building products
• Practical design solutions that are easily adapted for residential use
• In-depth strategies for lighting, daylighting, color, fabrics, floor covering, acoustics, wayfinding, furnishings, new technologies, and more
• Extensive information on how cultural changes are humanizing long-term care as well as adult day care, Planetree, the Green House Project, and hospice care
• Specific design suggestions for designing therapeutic gardens and outside environments for maximum pleasure and use

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471681180
• ISBN 13: 9780471681182
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400