An Observation of Assisted Living Environments

Zimmerman, Sheryl; Mitchell, C. Madeline; Chen, Cory K.; Morgan, Leslie A.; Gruber‐Baldini, Ann L.; Sloane, Philip D.; Eckert, Jochen; Munn, Jean

doi:10.1300/j083v49n03_11

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“…The institutional care facilities in Mainland China mainly include senior apartments, residential care homes, and nursing homes [ 26 ]. And institutional care facilities are also called care and attention (C&A) homes in Hong Kong, assisted living facilities and retirement homes in America and in Sweden, and rehabilitation facilities in Japan [ 27 , 28 ]. Due to the similar environments, relevant research on the above different types of facilities are partly applicable to institutional care facilities in China [ 11 ].…”

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“…The theory of goal setting clearly described the significance of performance improvement by setting management goals [ 13 ]. However, prior studies related to space/workplace management, facility (asset) management, and building performance focused minimally on setting goals for space management [ 4 , 28 ]. Regarding the goal setting process, Campbell and Finch [ 30 ] proposed that the process of establishing goals in the field of facilities management was not straightforward, since different stakeholders tended to meet their own facilities management requirements and also there is no applicable principles to identify goals.…”

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Exploring Space Management Goals in Institutional Care Facilities in China

Yuan

Ning

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Journal of Healthcare Engineering

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Space management has been widely examined in commercial facilities, educational facilities, and hospitals but not in China's institutional care facilities. Poor spatial arrangements, such as wasted space, dysfunctionality, and environment mismanagement, are increasing; in turn, the occupancy rate is decreasing due to residential dissatisfaction. To address these problems, this paper's objective is to explore the space management goals (SMGs) in institutional care facilities in China. Systematic literature analysis was adopted to set SMGs' principles, to identify nine theoretical SMGs, and to develop the conceptual model of SMGs for institutional care facilities. A total of 19 intensive interviews were conducted with stakeholders in seven institutional care facilities to collect data for qualitative analysis. The qualitative evidence was analyzed through open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. As a result, six major categories as well as their interrelationships were put forward to visualize the path diagram for exploring SMGs in China's institutional care facilities. Furthermore, seven expected SMGs that were explored from qualitative evidence were confirmed as China's SMGs in institutional care facilities by a validation test. Finally, a gap analysis among theoretical SMGs and China's SMGs provided recommendations for implementing space management in China's institutional care facilities.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Exploring Space Management Goals in Institutional Care Facilities in China

Yuan

Ning

et al. 2017

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

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“…In general, the route to obtain the aforementioned performance data in space dimension is auditing space utilization and evaluation space functionality. In elderly facilities, such as assisted living facilities, the improvement of space functionality and space accessibility were associated with environment effectiveness which could directly enhance elderly residents' satisfaction [31,32].…”

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A Multi-Stakeholder Delphi Study to Determine Key Space Management Components for Elderly Facilities in China

Yuan

Roper

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Sustainability

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Abstract:The elderly population in China is increasing rapidly. To meet elderly residents' housing demand, Chinese government makes great efforts to build more elderly facilities. However, major challenges in the operation of these elderly facilities, such as low space utilization rate, poor accessibility, poor environment and so on, have being emerging. The critical reason for challenges can be concluded as the lack of effective space management components. Therefore, the primary aim of this study was to explore key space management components for China's elderly facilities. Considering stakeholders' (facility owner, facility manager, care staff, elderly residents, and academic researchers) viewpoints on space management, this study used a multi-stakeholder Delphi approach to determine key space management components through five steps. Based on the selection criteria, a total of 25 Delphi panellists with five stakeholder groups were invited and finally 23 Delphi panellists participated in the whole study process. Subsequently, the academic researchers among these panellists were employed to quantify the stakeholders' influence with the parameter of stakeholder influencing factor. After that, the initial discussion on space management was performed to generate the initial list involving 11 space management components. Next, two ranking rounds were conducted to conclude the final significance scores of each space management component from five stakeholder groups' feedbacks. With respect to the final ranking score and the values of influencing stakeholder factor, the decision score of each space management components was calculated, which integrated all stakeholder groups' opinions. Finally, through two cut-off points, a total of seven components were selected as the key space management components for China's elderly facilities including space planning and assignment, space utilization audit, space occupancy cost audit, space inventory management, space usability management, space change management, and the management of health safety and environment. These components will assist facility managers to conduct effective and sustainable space management practice for supporting organizational core business.

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“…Several researchers have stressed the importance of studying the daily use of common spaces in relation to the projected functions of elder-care environments (Andersson 2011; Andersson, Lindahl and Malmqvist 2011; Ice 2002; Nord 2011 a ; Zimmerman et al . 2007). A growing body of research also concerns the role of common spaces for social interaction in ALS (Frankowski et al .…”

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The use of common spaces in assisted living schemes for older persons: a comparison of somatic and dementia units

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This study explores how common spaces in assisted living schemes for older persons are used by the residents. Observation studies, group interviews with staff and individual interviews with residents, relatives, architects and key stakeholders in the context of Swedish elder-care were conducted. Common spaces are the major location for in-house social interaction on the units. The results show a higher presence on the dementia units, compared to the somatic units. No significant correlation was found between the residents' mobility limitations and their degree of presence in the common spaces. The results also suggest a contradiction between the staff's intentions to provide a social context and the capabilities of the residents. Although common spaces are not used much between meals, the residents stress their importance for social interaction, suggesting that common spaces have important qualitative aspects, rather than quantitative. The results also show that few of the residents used the common spaces together with their relatives. The increasing use of assistive technology creates a shortage of space, suggesting a conflict between the efforts to create a home-like environment and the use of assistive technology.

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An Observation of Assisted Living Environments

Cited by 14 publications

References 30 publications

Exploring Space Management Goals in Institutional Care Facilities in China

Exploring Space Management Goals in Institutional Care Facilities in China

A Multi-Stakeholder Delphi Study to Determine Key Space Management Components for Elderly Facilities in China

The use of common spaces in assisted living schemes for older persons: a comparison of somatic and dementia units

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