Architecture for Residential Care and Ageing Communities

<p><em>Architecture for Residential Care and Ageing Communities</em> confronts urgent architectural design challenges within residential innovation ageing communities and healthcare environments. </p><p>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.</p><p>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 health promotive situations of dwelling ageing and caring.</p>