Design for Assisted Living
Guidelines for Housing the Physically and Mentally Frail
by Victor Regnier

This book gives a complete overview of designing for the mentally and physically frail elderly. Research gathered from hundreds of buildings in the United States and northern Europe is presented here in design directives, case studies, and practical guidelines.

Features:

• Specific solutions: 100 qualities and characteristics of successful environments: Ways to make larger rooms appear smaller
• Circulation patterns that lead to greater social interaction, and new approaches to "edge spaces" like porches and winter gardens
• Recent developments: Designs that promote exercise therapy, therapeutic designs for dementia, and environmental and service changes that support "aging in place"
• Key issues: Site design, therapeutic garden design, interior design specifications, lighting treatments, unit design features, and regulatory impediments
• Resources: photographs from dozens of the best-designed facilities in the United States and Europe along with floor plans from fifteen outstanding case studies

Spurred by increases in the oldest-old population, long-term care has been reinvented in the form of attractive, homelike settings. Design for Assisted Living provides solutions to the challenges of creating these environments now and into the future.

This book is an indispensable resource for architects, planners, interior designers, landscape architects, and housing providers, as well as gerontologists, nursing home administrators, housing managers, and policymakers.

Contents

1. PART I: ASSISTED LIVING DEFINED
   • What Is Assisted Living?
   • Benchmarking Assisted Living Buildings and Residents
   • Defining Conceptual Frameworks for Assisted Living Environments and Services

2. PART II: 100 CRITICAL DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
   • Neighborhood and Site Issues
   • The Outdoor Landscape
   • Refining Design Attributes
   • Stimulating Social Interaction
   • Extending Independence
   • Stimulating the Senses
   • Creating Affect
   • Planning the Dwelling Unit
   • Engaging the Staff
   • Designing for Dementia

3. PART III: CASE STUDIES
   • Humanitas Bergweg, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
   • Wilhelmiina, Helsinki, Finland
   • Goddard House, Brookline, Massachusetts
   • Gyngemosegerd, Herlev, Denmark
   • Sunrise of Mission Viejo, Mission Viejo, California
   • Crown Cove, Corona Del Mar, California
   • Sunrise of Bellevue, Bellevue, Washington
   • Sunrise of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
   • Copper Ridge, Sykesville, Maryland
   • Virranranta, Kiruvesi, Finland
   • Harbour House, Greendale, Wisconsin
   • Ros Anders Gerd, Vksterhaninge, Sweden
   • Humlehusene, Albertslund, Denmark
   • Postiljonen. Hvlliviken, Sweden
   • Metsdtdhti, Hankasalmi, Finland

4. PART IV: CONCLUSIONS AND DIRECTIVES
   • Lessons Learned from Northern European Visits.
   • Other Lessons from Each Individual Country.
   • 20 Most Important Design Issues and Considerations.
   • 30 Future Trends.
   • Concluding Issues

Appendix A: Noteworthy Buildings
Appendix B: Additional Important Buildings
Appendix C: Glossary of Housing Terms

Index

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