Architecture for residential care and ageing communities : spaces for dwelling and healthcare /

Architecture for Residential Care and Ageing Communities confronts urgent architectural design challenges within residential innovation, aging communities and healthcare environments. The increasing and diversified demands on the housing market today call for alterability and adaptability in long te...

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Other Authors: Gromark, Sten (Editor), Andersson, Björn, 1952 April 23- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2021]
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Summary:Architecture for Residential Care and Ageing Communities confronts urgent architectural design challenges within residential innovation, aging 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 situations of dwelling, aging and caring.
Physical Description:xvii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780367358730
0367358735
9780367358716
0367358719