Design Innovations for Aging and Alzheimer's: Creating Caring Environments Hardcover - 2005 - 1st Edition

First line

Aging can make your skin sag, your pants bag, your joints hurt, your blood pressure rise, and your risk of disease increase, and that's just for starters.

From the rear 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