This white paper written by Maggie Calkins with financial support from WhisperGLIDE, focuses on the importance of outdoor spaces and explores how to design areas where people want to spend time. Resources for getting started are also included.
Resource Category: Physical Environment
Changing the existing physical environment of a nursing home in ways that improve residents’ quality of life and without major expenditures is possible with these tools.
Design on a Dollar
The Design on a Dollar journey provides easy “how-to” instructions and tips to make environmental changes cost-effective while involving your whole community
The Environmental Side of the Culture Change Movement: Symposium Background
Provides the history of the culture change movement as it pertains to the physical environment, a summary of current research into building design issues and innovations, and a review of relevant federal long term care and Life Safety Code regulations… Read more
Just in Time Toolkit – Environment
These toolkits highlight helpful implementation resources, identify relevant regulations and point providers to results to help them find just the right path for their organization in each of three areas, environment change, dining transformations and staffing transformations
Creating Home in a Nursing Home: Fantasy or Reality (Power Point)
Illustrates ways nursing homes can be designed to reflect house and operated to reflect home
Creating Home in a Nursing Home: Fantasy or Reality
Explores ways nursing homes can be designed to reflect house and operated to reflect home
Nursing Homes as Places to Live Now and in the Future (Power Point)
Illustrates the physical environment of the traditional institutional nursing home and makes recommendation for change
Nursing Homes as Places to Live Now and in the Future
Discusses the physical environment of the traditional institutional nursing home and makes recommendations for change
Private vs Shared Bedrooms
Illustrates the case for private vs. shared bedrooms
Low Cost Strategies to Transform Nursing Home Environments: Towards Better Quality of Life
Describes low cost ways that a nursing home’s physical environment can be transformed to create home for the people that live there
