Use and Usability of Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly: An Observation Study in Gothenburg Sweden

Andersson, Morgan; Lindahl, Göran; Malmqvist, Inga

doi:10.1080/02763893.2011.621860

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“…In contemporary facilities, the care environment is decorated with furniture, handicrafts, flowers, and art. The colors are bright, and light is adapted to each space with the goal being to create a homelike environment (Andersson, Lindahl, & Malmqvist, 2011) while minimizing the sense of it being "an institution" . Residents, often assisted by relatives, may decorate their personal apartments.…”

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A Visual Analysis on How the Physical Environment Conditions Relatives’ Involvement in Nursing Homes

Holmgren

2017

Sage Open

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This study seeks to describe how the composition of the physical care environment conditions relatives' involvement in nursing home institutions. It is well known that the physical care environment in institutions has a significant impact on the well-being of residents and the work satisfaction of nursing staff. Less explored is how physical care environmental factors are related to the involvement of relatives in nursing homes. A visual analysis of 52 photographs from three nursing homes in Sweden shows how the physical environment acts to condition the involvement of relatives through the use of design, information displays, and cultural symbols. Although various aspects of the physical environment promoted participation of relatives, that engagement was based on certain limited concepts of involvement. This suggests that other conceptual frameworks of involvement in nursing homes are possible, and that these might encourage other aspects of involvement from the relatives of nursing home residents.

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A Visual Analysis on How the Physical Environment Conditions Relatives’ Involvement in Nursing Homes

Holmgren

2017

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“…The issues addressed here are valid for other eldercare environments and the results are transferrable to AL and similar environments worldwide. Earlier publications have presented results from the observations (Andersson, Lindahl, & Malmqvist, 2011).…”

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Exploring the Function and Use of Common Spaces in Assisted Living for Older Persons

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Malmqvist³

2014

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“…The concept of usability has emerged in recent years, largely in the built environment. In terms of the elderly facilities, space usability describes the attributes of physical environment regarding functionality, accessibility, flexibility and so on, which is applicable in the post occupancy evaluation of the built environment [31]. Most Delphi panellists claimed that the management of space usability in space management should be strengthened.…”

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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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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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Use and Usability of Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly: An Observation Study in Gothenburg Sweden

Cited by 11 publications

References 22 publications

A Visual Analysis on How the Physical Environment Conditions Relatives’ Involvement in Nursing Homes

A Visual Analysis on How the Physical Environment Conditions Relatives’ Involvement in Nursing Homes

Exploring the Function and Use of Common Spaces in Assisted Living for Older Persons

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

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