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Design Innovations for Aging and Alzheimer's: Creating Caring Environments
ISBN: 978-0-471-68118-2
November 2005
384 pages
"Betsy Brawley offers practical, cost-conscious yet aesthetic alternatives to the toughest issues in design for residential and group activity environments. Families, architects, design professionals, and health care professionals have much to learn from her inspired multidimensional approaches."
—Lisa P. Gwyther, MSW, LCSW
Education Director Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Duke University Medical Center
We have learned much in the past decade about designing supportive care environments for aging. Design Innovations for Aging and Alzheimer's is a detailed guide for a broad range of design issues essential to maintaining independence and functional abilities, maximizing mobility, staying socially connected, and encouraging good health. It features: