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

Brawley, Elizabeth C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471681180 ISBN 13: 9780471681182

Verlag: Wiley & Sons, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Innovations in Design for Aging and Alzheimer's Disease is a comprehensive resource focused on recent innovations in design solutions for care environments for the aging.
* Includes photographs and line drawings, as well as a 16-page colour insert.
* Provides material on sustainable design and building products that are environmentally friendly and appropriate for a care environment for the aging.
 
Design solutions are not limited to assisted-living facilities and nursing homes but can also be easily adapted for residential use.

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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.

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"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

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0471681180
• ISBN 13: 9780471681182
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Wiley-VCH GmbH; product_safety@wiley.com; ; Boschstrasse 12; Weinheim; 69469; Deutschland