How Do Older Residents Experience a Recently Built Innovative Housing and Care Facility?

Coomans, Koen; Vermeersch, Peter-Willem; Heylighen, Ann

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“…Yet, that message has not entered the conscious design process of the built environment professionals, as the perception and visual distraction in architectural literature [ 52 ] concentrates on architectural-focused instead of person-focused aims, unrelated to the distortions of perception due to ill health. Moreover, research suggests that architects might have a combination of lack of knowledge and misconceptions on the actual needs and preferences of the elderly and research by design projects, such as the example of a Dementia ward at Flanders [ 45 , 53 ]. This gap of architectural knowledge and education on the perception and users' needs should make us reflect on the way architectural education is delivered as well as potential for further research.…”

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Perspectives on the Role and Synergies of Architecture and Social and Built Environment in Enabling Active Healthy Aging

Chrysikou¹,

Rabnett²,

Tziraki

2016

Journal of Aging Research

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Research has demonstrated that enabling societal and physical infrastructure and personal accommodations enhance healthy and active aging throughout the lifespan. Yet, there is a paucity of research on how to bring together the various disciplines involved in a multidomain synergistic collaboration to create new living environments for aging. This paper aims to explore the key domains of skills and knowledge that need to be considered for a conceptual prototype of an enabling educational process and environments where healthcare professionals, architects, planners, and entrepreneurs may establish a shared theoretical and experiential knowledge base, vocabulary, and implementation strategies, for the creation of the next generation of living communities of active healthy adults, for persons with disabilities and chronic disease conditions. We focus on synergistic, paradigmatic, simple, and practical issues that can be easily upscaled through market mechanisms. This practical and physically concrete approach may also become linked with more elaborate neuroscientific and technologically sophisticated interventions. We examine the domains of knowledge to be included in establishing a learning model that focuses on the still-understudied impact of the benefits toward active and healthy aging, where architects, urban planners, clinicians, and healthcare facility managers are educated toward a synergistic approach at the operational level.

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Perspectives on the Role and Synergies of Architecture and Social and Built Environment in Enabling Active Healthy Aging

Chrysikou¹,

Rabnett²,

Tziraki

2016

Journal of Aging Research

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“…Moreover, work conducted on other forms of the built environment, could shed more light on the way we design for healthcare. For example, the work of space syntax on social housing (Hanson 2001, Hillier & Hanson 1998 and social housing and housing provision for dementia (Bligh 2016), as well as housing design and active lifestyle (Brookfield et al 2015) and care homes (Coomans et al 2016, Croucher 2008) demonstrate a variety of possibilities, where evidence based design could affect social cohesion and quality of life for vulnerable groups in general.…”

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Architectural hybrids for living across the lifespan: lessons from dementia

Chrysikou

Tziraki

Buhalis

2017

The Service Industries Journal

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Maintaining health, independence and autonomy are associated with a longer and meaningful lifespan. Architecture and the built environment are critical for the quality of life across the lifespan, and especially at the late stages of life when people are less mobile and often suffer from form of disability. The theory of salutogenesis, focusing on human health and well-being, rather than the disease itself (pathogenesis) provides evidence that space and built environment contribute to an increased sense of wellbeing across the aging life span. This framework has influenced the medical architecture sector as facilities are designed to facilitate the wellbeing of users. However, most aspects of built environment, including the domain of urban developments retain mostly segregated functions. Learning from the hospitality sectors, where traditionally hotels and hospitality facilities have been designed to offer pleasurable experiences, can be of benefit. Increasingly healthcare facilities aim to look and feel like hotels, that provide specialist (health) services in order to improve user experience and to make it as pleasurable as possible. This does not eliminate the conceptual and usage gaps between hospitality and health facilities, but supports cross fertilization of best practice from both domains. This paper explores the possibilities of more synergistic domains for the creation of urban developments, health care provision facilities and hospitality industry. Appropriate services and quality of life across the lifespan is the ultimate objective and the physical environment is critical in that provision. It is using the architectural typology interpretation of the first dementia village as a case study to explore how to create hybrids between healthcare and hospitality. Bringing lessons from both domains can contribute to the silver economy while providing the aging population with enhanced built environments. Aging population as well as all the stakeholders in this ecosystem can benefit from exploring the synergies.

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How Do Older Residents Experience a Recently Built Innovative Housing and Care Facility?

Cited by 2 publications

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Perspectives on the Role and Synergies of Architecture and Social and Built Environment in Enabling Active Healthy Aging

Perspectives on the Role and Synergies of Architecture and Social and Built Environment in Enabling Active Healthy Aging

Architectural hybrids for living across the lifespan: lessons from dementia

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