Building Type Basics for Senior Living

L. Bradford Perkins

ISBN 10: 0941575470 / ISBN 13: 9780941575478

Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc 0

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building Type Basics for Senior Living
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc 0
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0941575470
• ISBN 13: 9780941575478
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Acceptable
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Learn the essentials of designing housing and care environments for the elderly with this volume in The Building Type Basic Series.

• Includes material on active retirement communities, continuing care retirement communities, assisted living facilities, Alzheimer′s facilities, hospices and more. 
• Thoroughly illustrated with descriptive floor plans, diagrams, and photographs, this practical guide is ideal for today′s design professionals.

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The fastest way to straighten out the learning curve on specialized design projects

"The series is welcome . . . By providing recent buildings as examples, supported with technical information and charts of design criteria, these books attempt to bridge the gap between theory and practice."
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Building Type Basics books provide architects, engineers, and facility planners with the essentials they need to jump–start the design of a variety of specialized facilities. In each volume, leading national figures in the field address the key questions that shape the early phases of a project commission. The answers to these questions provide instant information in a convenient, easy–to–follow format. The result is an excellent, hands–on reference that puts critical information at your fingertips.

Building Type Basics for Senior Living and Care is a rich resource of nuts–and–bolts guidelines and know–how for designing housing and care environments for the elderly. Written by leaders in the field, this highly visual guidebook offers project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details on a variety of building subtypes. This is an invaluable reference for everyone involved in the early stages of designing facilities for the over–65 population.