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Aging in Place: Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment: Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment / Ellen D. Taira, Jodi L. Carlson, Editors.
 
 
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Aging in Place: Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment: Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment / Ellen D. Taira, Jodi L. Carlson, Editors. [Hardcover]

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Provide a comfortable living environment for the aging!

Aging in Place: Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment gives you a complete examination of current trends in adaptive home designs for older adults. As a therapist, designer, architect, builder, home planner, social worker, community organizer, or gerontologist, Aging in Place will show you innovative home designs and studies for creating environments that offer optimal living for aging adults.

Complete with diagrams, floor plans, and tables, Aging in Place helps you to improve the quality of life for the elderly by offering them state-of-the-art designs that encourage independence and dignity.

This unique and exciting book covers topics such as universal design which strives to create everyday environments and products like door handles and light switches that are usable by all people to the greatest extent possible, regardless of age or ability.

Aging in Place will also show you how to:
  • use follow-up visits by occupational therapists to ensure successful use of home modifications
  • create environments that are helpful for vision rehabilitation by using controlled lighting and color schemes
  • evaluate the quality of life for elderly people living in personal dwellings, specialized housing, and nursing homes
  • explore architectural barriers and the uses of helping devices for elderly people
  • examine research critiques of adaptive toilet equipment
  • investigate modifications that have been made in homes for the elderly in India
  • analyze ways in which elderly people have changed their homes to make the telephone more accessible

    Aging in Place is a complete guide to understanding the needs and latest trends in optimizing the living space of elderly persons. The book gives you access to several studies on elderly people's environmental needs and preferences in regard to modifications in personal and public dwellings. This information will assist you with better serving the elderly by helping them live more independently.
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Universal design of environments and tools and objects of daily use is a concept or philosophy for design that recognizes, respects, values, and attempts to accommodate the broadest possible spectrum of human ability. Read the first page
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A thoughtful presentation on design and adaptation. 9 Jan 2002
By "kt-therasite" - Published on Amazon.com
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This fascinating book provides a complilation of articles centered around the issue of individuals residing where they want, despite disability & illness. It begins by proposing that universal design, rather than specialized design, can be cheaper & more convenient for people with certain disabilities. Furthermore, universal design eliminates the distinction between people with or without disabilities.

Each article enhances one's perspective on design adaptation. Through a program implemented by the Pennsylvania Department of Aging, we are shown the importance of follow-up visits. These insure that the recommended modifications are implemented correctly and that the client can incorporate them appropriately. Another study suggests re-evaluation of existing ADA accessibility guidelines for toileting grab bars. Current configurations appears to be most appropriate for non-ambulatory transfers & not the semi-ambulatory transfers that are predominant in the aging population. This results in increased dependancy. We are also given an international perspective on the use of modifications in old age homes in India.

An additional article reveals, counterintuitively, that older adults in specialized living situations, such as retirement homes, report a better sense of quality of life than those who live in their own homes. Unsurprisingly, those in nursing homes reported the lowest quality of life. A discussion follows regarding the disengagement of residents in nursing homes & the possibilities of adapting the environment to correct this.

The book concludes with a perspective on implications for occupational therapists. With their abilities to assess functional capacities of the elderly who may have chronic or progressive disorders, they may be in a better position to design modifications than the traditional architects, engineers, interior designers &/or urban planners.

This book offered a thoughtful presentation on the design & adaptation implications for our aging population. One realizes that there is much more knowledge to be attained to optimize the home environment for our aging adults. Aging In Place is a good place to start.

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