Assisted-Living Housing for the Elderly: Innovations in Design and Planning - Hardcover

Regnier, Victor

9780442007027: Assisted-Living Housing for the Elderly: Innovations in Design and Planning

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0442007027 ISBN 13: 9780442007027

Publisher: Titles Supplied by John Wiley & Sons Australia, 1993

Winner of the 1994 Progressive Architecture Award for Architectural Research "Victor Regnier s work is one of the few significant additions to the research on one of the most important architectural challenges facing the design professions today: how to design supportive and attractive environments for our nation s rapidly–growing, aged population. His research and writing challenge the profession to reconceive these environments as enriched housing rather than health care institutions." Bradford Perkins, FAIA Partner, Perkins–Eastman and Partners "Victor Regnier s new book should be read both for its approach to using environment–behavior research and for the lessons it has to offer about assisted living. The book is itself a prototype of inquiring process and design content. Its vivid examples and careful analysis significantly improve our understanding of the cross–cultural principals of prototype buildings." John Zeisel, Ph.D Author, Inquiry by Design: Tools for Environment–behavior Research. "As the nation moves towards the development of a comprehensive health care system, it is clear that a major component of the plan will be alternatives to institutionalization. Victor Regnier s exemplary book clearly and cogently discusses the newest, most exciting, and most promising of these alternative housing/health care arrangements assisted living. For such a new concept to receive detailed attention from such a seasoned researcher is fortunate indeed. It is must reading for professional and consumer alike." Paul A. Kerschner, Ph.D. Executive Director The Gerontological Society of America

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About the Author:

About the Author Victor A. Regnier, FAIA, holds a unique joint appointment between the Andrus Gerontology Center and the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is currently Dean of the School of Architecture. Professor Regnier’s work combines research and practice in architecture with an understanding of how environments support the social and physical needs of special users. He has written several other books and has received awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, Progressive Architecture, and the American Planning Association for his applied research activities. This work was funded by a Fulbright senior research award with additional support from six other organizations and foundations.

Synopsis:

Focuses on the physical environment of housing for mentally and physically frail older people who need help to maintain their independence. Stresses the relationship between design and the therapeutic milieu. Innovative examples, most from Europe where they do it better, are described and illustrated with photographs and drawings. Annotation copyri

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