Design for Aging | Healthy Heating

A key resources to www.healthyheating.com is Karen Bean, B.S.W, R.S.W. who specializes in care of seniors with mental and physical disabilities. As a specialized healthcare provider she does assessments in a variety of environments including clients homes, and long and short term care facilities. There can be no doubt that designing common spaces shared by a diversity of the abled and disabled has to be one of the greatest challenges for those responsible for the occupants health, wellness and comfort.

If you have an interest in this area, we think you'll enjoy what these individuals, and the organizations they represent, offer to the world of design.

"...the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture came to be when Jonas Salk had stimulated Norman Koonce and Syl Damianos [then president and chairman of the American Architectural Foundation, respectively] to get someone to explore the brain’s role in how architecture affects human experience. What Salk said was...
“Architects should have a better understanding of human experience with architectural settings.”
Academy of Neuroscience
for Architecture

Indoor Environmental Quality for Older Adults

Suggested Reading:

The Human Element in Design for Aging

Physiological and Subjective Responses in the Elderly When Using
Floor Heating and Air Conditioning Systems

Design for Aging

Leslie Moldow, AIA, Principal, Perkins Eastman and Amanda D'Luhy from the American Institute of Architects graciously allowed us to post these links to what we feel is some of the best stuff starting to come out of the world of architecture. It has to do with the study of aging, architecture and the neurosciences.

AIA Design for Aging eNewsLetter

"The goal of this publication will be to provide information that helps our members better understand upcoming events and their content and offer access to links to related organizations and articles on pertinent topics concerning seniors housing and care."
Excerpt from the first edition.

Neuroscience of Facilities for the Aging and People with Alzheimer’s November 30 to December 1, 2006 By Leslie G. Moldow, AIA

"An extraordinary and unprecedented event occurred at the end of November 2006. Neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, senior living operators, and architects together discussed how the aging mind perceives its surroundings and how to apply this knowledge to improve environments for our elders. The workshop focused on identifying research topics for the scientific community that would enrich and inform the architectural design process."

Neuroscience of Facilities for the Aging and People with Alzheimer’s Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture American Institute of Architects Thursday, November 30, 2006

"Environmental pressures can lead to negative psychological and physiological effects."

Solutions:

In our courses we emphasize the first solution to indoor environmental quality must be an architectural solution and then secondly a mechanical solution. Our choice for mechanical systems, addressing IEQ challenges which can not be met entirely by the multi facets of architecture, is this system; we call it a radiant based HVAC system or The Total Comfort System. For greater study on separating Indoor Air Quality from Indoor Comfort Quality visit Stanley A. Mumma, Ph.D., P.E. , Professor Emeritus of Architectural Engineering at Penn State University.

We show the small child to remind us undeveloped intellects leave pure physical responses and desires for acceptable environments ...some times we can learn lots from our children when it comes to IEQ.

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