The renovation includes the addition of a new gathering space as well as other improvements such as the addition of a purposeful activity room for residents to enjoy group exercise classes, and more.
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Three Keys To Redefining “Home” In Long-Term Care
Less than a year after breaking ground on one of the largest construction projects in the Rochester, N.Y., area, the team at Jewish Senior Life has made tremendous progress toward making our campus transformation a reality. The street view of our campus looks vastly...
Creating Supportive Bariatric Environments
As obesity rates among seniors increase, communities need to consider the appropriate furnishings, equipment, and space planning to benefit residents and staff.
Obstacles and solutions in real-world design 2012
How do you justify an indoor park to code officials? What about adjusting to last-minute modular construction? As this year’s submitting firms demonstrated, senior living designers must show not only industriousness, but also diplomacy on any given project.
Oh, and it doesn’t hurt to know a thing or two about non-toxic vegetation. You'll see.
Making project development manageable (in bite-sized chunks)
We’ve all heard the question, “How do you eat an elephant?” and the corresponding answer, “One bite at a time.” Tackling a large-scale development project can be a similarly daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be if broken into the rightseries of smaller projects.
Developing a framework for Resident Safety Risk Assessment
Resident safety issues in LTC facilities—skilled nursing, assisted living and dementia/Alzheimer’s care facilities—have increasingly attracted attention from practitioners, researchers and decision makers in recent years. As one of the efforts to enhance resident safety, The Center for Health Design (CHD) worked with others to develop a Resident Safety Risk Assessment framework focusing on the design of the LTC physical environment.
