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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"senior living"”.
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Patient Safety Services: Reducing Resident Falls in California’s Senior Living Homes
<p>Older adults residing in California assisted living facilities (ALF) have an increased risk for falls, which have resulted in higher fall-related healthcare costs and demand for quality end-of-life (EOL) care services. California fall interventions are in a state of infancy to reduce the number …
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How commercial senior living facilities help enhance the social well-being of older customers through social activities: Evidence from China
… care provision from family members, commercial senior living facilities have emerged as a solution to older adults’ care. Transformative service research, which focuses on the uplifting changes generated by the interactions between service entities and customer entities, has been applied to …
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Place d'Orleans Reinvente: A Senior-Centric Vision for a Suburban Mall
… Accepting the suburban mall's privileged role in seniors' lives, the thesis pursues the mall's radical reconfiguration into both ideal setting for senior living and relevant landscape for younger generations. Through strategic removals and additions, and via the "spatialization" of the mall's …
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Density and diversity : evaluating one CDFI's place-based revitalization strategy in Detroit's underwater market
… with expertise in health care, education, and senior-living facilities financing, was invited to Detroit to support a private sector and philanthropic initiative to re-densify strong neighborhoods with amenity-rich, market rate housing. Through a series of interviews and surveys with …
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A case for critical reflection for mission leader formation in interdisciplinary ministry
… case study was focused on mission leaders from senior living and healthcare, education, and social service ministries and focused on how mission leaders value critical reflection as part of their mission leader formation/development. The overarching research question that informed this study was …
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Integrated Senior Housing
… be considering how to improve the housing of senior citizens. Furthermore, bringing the youth and elderly together would produce a functioning self-help system. It engenders interaction strategies by employing the strengths of one generation to serve another generation’s needs. This idea was …
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Claiming Identity through Space: LGBTQ+ Community Building via Commercial Development in West Hollywood and Palm Springs
… of a queer women-owned small business and LGBT+ senior living community. The findings underscore the subversive and politically charged origins of gayborhoods, characterized by authenticity, entrepreneurship, and community-centric values. The analysis also reveals challenges to gayborhood …
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Considerations for Contemporary Design and Land Use Within Existing Historical Context
The inevitable changes to the built environment over time presents the question of what contemporary design is appropriate for existing historical context. This is inherently a wicked problem that is becoming increasingly important to designers in the 21st century. Wicked problems, as the …
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Baby Boomer Living: Designing a Modern Continuing Care Retirement Community
… the Baby Boomer cohort is vastly changing the senior housing landscape. As the housing market gradually improves and the development of senior housing chases the increasing demand, Baby Boomers are a highly selective cohort with more buying and spending power than their predecessors, are …
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Making medication adherence decisions: Stories from older adults taking medications for congestive heart failure
… research flyers were placed in two churches, two senior community centers, three senior living communities, one indigent care clinic, and one cardiology office. The personal narratives of 11 adults aged 65 and older who took at least two daily medications for CHF were gathered using in-depth, …
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Supportive Design Features in Kitchens and Bathrooms of Age-Restricted Retirement Community Homes
… and bathrooms of homes being built for persons living in age-restricted retirement communities. A list of research and design recommendations based on empirical research was compiled and ordered into categories of supportive features for general, kitchen, and bathroom design for seniors. Design …
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Human factors and safety for seniors who cook
… physical effects of aging, anthropometrics of seniors, and the difficulties that seniors face in the cooking process. Research was performed through interviews, observation, and academic sources. The scope of this project did not include the effects of cognitive decline. Some of the biggest …
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Artificial Emotional Intelligence in Socially Assistive Robots
… and companionship. For example, residents living in housing designed for older adults often feel lonely, isolated, and depressed; therefore, having social interaction and mental stimulation is critical to improve their well-being. Socially Assistive Robots are designed to address these …