Architecture for Residential Care and Ageing Communities confronts urgent architectural design challenges within residential innovation, ageing communities and healthcare environments.

The increasing and diversified demands on the housing market today call for alterability and adaptability in long term solutions for new integrated ways of residing. Meanwhile, an accentuated ageing society requires new residential ways of living, combining dignity, independence and appropriate care. Concurrently, profound changes in technical conditions for home healthcare require rethinking healing environments. This edited collection explores the dynamics between these integrated architectural and caring developments and intends to envision reconfigured environmental design patterns that can significantly enhance new forms of welfare and ultimately, an improved quality of life.

This book identifies, presents, and articulates new qualities in designs, in caring processes, and healing atmospheres, thereby providing operational knowledge developed in close collaboration with academics, actors and stakeholders in architecture, design, and healthcare. This is an ideal read for those interested in health promotive situations of dwelling, ageing and caring.

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Page numbers in italics indicate figures and page numbers in bold indicate tables on the corresponding page.

abstract art and decoration, in intensive care units 231

abstract touch 62

Acceptera 66

accessibility: assisted living and 133; home care and 110–111, 115, 122; senior housing compared 134

accidents 78–79; locations in private homes 114

acoustic environment, of ICU rooms 228

adaptability 123–124, 279

adaptable apartments 65–76, 124; concept defined 68; corner stones for current dwelling design in Sweden 66–67; demographic transformation 65–66; elasticity 71; home care and 117; household’s living process 67–68; narratives of spatial use in the home 68–73; spatial capacity 65–67; staying and adapting space 73, 75

adaptive learning 270, 274

ADL assistance 90–91

ADL cluster 88–99, 89, 92; comparative analysis of existing in the Netherlands 92; defined 90; recommendations for construction of future 96–97

ADL home 93–94, 96; defined 90; eligibility for 91

ADL housing: collective spaces 96, 98, 101; comparative analysis of case studies 94, 96; definitions 90–91; experimental re-designs for the impaired 88–103; financial innovation 101–102; floor plan 95; physical aspects, analysis of 94, 96; recent development in the Netherlands related to 91, 93; recommendations for construction of future ADL clusters 96–97; scale of building 96; scale of home 94, 97, 98–100; scale of neighborhood ...

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgement
List of Contributors
Introduction: Exploring Architectural Validity: Health Promoting Situations of Dwelling, Ageing and Caring
Section I Dwelling
Section II Ageing
Section III Caring
Section IV Methodological Considerations
Index

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