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"Architecture for Residential Care and Ageing Communities confronts urgent architectural design challenges within residential innovation, ageing communities and healthcare environments. The increasing and diversified demands on the housing market today call for alterability and adaptability in long term solutions for new integrated ways of residing. Meanwhile, an accentuated ageing society requires new residential ways of living, combining dignity, independence and appropriate care. Concurrently, profound changes in technical conditions for home healthcare require rethinking healing environments. This edited collection explores the dynamics between these integrated architectural and caring developments and intends to envision reconfigured environmental design patterns that can significantly enhance new forms of welfare and ultimately, an improved quality of life. This book identifies, presents, and articulates new qualities in designs, in caring processes, and healing atmospheres, thereby providing operational knowledge developed in close collaboration with academics, actors and stakeholders in architecture, design, and healthcare. This is an ideal read for those interested in situations of dwelling, ageing and caring"--

Housing and health --- Logement et santé --- Health promotion. --- Promotion de la santé --- Domestic architecture for older people --- Personnes âgées --- Logement --- Barrier-free design for older people --- Health promotion --- Health promotion programs --- Health promotion services --- Promotion of health --- Wellness programs --- Preventive health services --- Health education --- Dwellings --- Health and housing --- Housing --- Environmental health --- Public health --- Older people --- Architecture and the aged --- Health aspects --- 72.012.4 --- 725.5 --- 725.5 Gebouwen voor gezondheidszorg. Gebouwen voor sociale zorg --- Gebouwen voor gezondheidszorg. Gebouwen voor sociale zorg --- Social policy and particular groups --- Public buildings --- architecture [discipline] --- housing for the elderly --- Logement et santé --- Promotion de la santé --- Personnes âgées