Nursing Home Renovation Designed for Reform [Hardcover]

Lorraine Hiatt (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0750691263 | ISBN-13: 978-0750691260 | Publication Date: May 30, 1991

Nursing Home Renovation Designed for Reform guides sponsors, architects, and
interior designers through the options and procedures for transforming
yesterday's health care buildings to serve today's and tomorrow's older people,
Readers can fully grasp the opportunities for rearrangement, refurbishment, and
renovation of nursing homes. In addition, questionnaires and case studies
reveal renovation needs and applications. This book explores design plans for
nursing homes operating with a limited budget, and highlights techniques that
maximize living space to benefit both the elderly and the staff.



Topics include:
-design plans
-questionnaires for diagnosing design needs
-timely topics pertinent to long-term care facilities
-social and design improvements to achieve overall benefit
-framework plans for meeting work environment needs
-updated long-term care products

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Dr. Hiatt became, in my view, the popularizer of environmental and
gerontological psychology. She, more than any other person I know, began to
educate administrators and architects...about the special needs of older persons
that influenced the form and function of their specially created environments."
-Ira C. Robbins, Administrator of the Montefiore Home (Retired)

"Dr. Hiatt has produced a timely, readable, practical, functional, and extremely
valuable "how-to" guidebook to assist literally anyone interested in producing a
lovely, safe, and functional environment for the elderly. I was inspired and
renewed by reading the manual and could feel myself shift from feeling I had to
"put up with" because I didn't know how to begin, to feeling there was a real
possibilty for creative and appropriate change."
-Cynthia Wallace, Executive Vice President, Morningside House

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Architectural Press (May 30, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0750691263
• ISBN-13: 978-0750691260
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,129,835 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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