Design Innovations for Aging and Alzheimer's

Creating Caring Environments

We have learned much in the past decade about designing supportive 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.

With more than 200 photographs, this book offers practical design solutions that are easily adapted for residential use and in-depth strategies for lighting, daylighting, acoustics, floorcovering, fabrics and color, furnishings and new technologies. Guidelines and suggestions for designing supportive, therapeutic gardens are provided and creating outside environments for maximum pleasure and use. Extensive information is included on Culture Change and the efforts to humanize long-term care, Planetree, an acute care model of patient-centered care, Adult Day Care, and Hospice.

This book belongs in every library for those dealing with the impact of the environment on older people.

Designing for Alzheimer's Disease

Strategies for Creating Better Care Environments

If you're looking for a comprehensive guide for designing quality environments for Alzheimer's disease, then your search is over. Designing for Alzheimer's Disease gives design and healthcare professionals a complete guide to the essentials needed to create supportive environments for the elderly and people with Alzheimer’s disease. This information packed book is a "must have" reference for your library.

Designing for Alzheimer's Disease offers a complete blueprint for effective design development and implementation, with the full benefit of Elizabeth Brawley's extensive professional background in design for aging environments and her own family's experience with Alzheimer's disease. Easily adapted for use in home or healthcare settings, this book is a vital resource for architects, interior designers, nursing home administrators, and care providers – an invaluable aid in creating better care environments and improving quality of life for the elderly.

Awarded 1998 Polsky Prize for research in environment and Alzheimer's Disease.