HealthTech November 18, 2020
Forward-thinking construction and a strategic redesign of current spaces will ensure residents and staff are ready for what’s next.
Senior care employees provide vital and compassionate services, but some of the physical spaces where they work can present an image problem.
Gathering spaces, apartments and restrooms might be decades old, with dark or unwelcoming decor. More pressing is a lack of integrated technologies that can exacerbate the isolation of seniors during the pandemic, and even affect their safety.
Updating these residences to meet the evolving needs of older adults — and to better address COVID-19 — requires more than a touch-up, some panelists noted in sessions this and last week at the LeadingAge Annual Meeting Virtual Experience.
“The facilities need...
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