Design Details for Health

Praise for Design Details for Health

"Cynthia Leibrock and Debra Harris have developed a vitally
important reference. They draw upon and compile a rich source of
evidence that supports the application of specific research-based
details for particular health-related settings."--From the
Foreword by Dr. Wayne Ruga, AIA, FIIDA, Hon. FASID

The revised edition on implementing design details to improve
today's health care facilities--an inspiring, comprehensive
guide

In this significantly revised second edition, Cynthia Leibrock
and Debra Harris offer up-to-date information on design details
that can improve patient outcomes and user experience by returning
authority to the patient, along with fascinating case studies and
research demonstrating the positive role design can play in
reducing health care costs. Design Details for Health, Second
Edition offers contemporary examples showing how design can improve
patient comfort and independence, and demonstrates how to design
highly functional health care facilities that operate at peak
performance. The book addresses a range of health care facility
types including hospitals, ambulatory care, wellness centers,
subacute care and rehabilitation, adult day care and respite,
assisted living, hospice, dementia care, and aging in place. This
Second Edition includes:

• The latest research, which was only anecdotal in nature as
  recently as a decade ago, illustrating how design through evidence
  produces measurable outcomes

• Real-world case studies of a range of excellent health care
  facilities that have been designed and built in the twenty-first
  century

• Updated contributions with leading practitioners, researchers,
  and providers conveying how design has a positive impact on health
  care delivery

When design empowers rather than disables, everybody wins.
Sensitive to the needs of both patients and providers, Design
Details for Health, Second Edition is essential reading for today's
architects, interior designers, facility managers, and health care
professionals.

Auteur

CYNTHIA A. LEIBROCK, MA, ASID, HON. IIDA, is an
award-winning author, an international lecturer, and a designer
with more than thirty years of experience. Her mission is to
improve the lives of older and disabled people through design. The
principal and founder of Easy Access to Health, LLC, in Colorado,
she has taught courses at Harvard University Graduate School of
Design for the past ten years. She is also the coauthor of
Beautiful Barrier-Free: A Visual Guide to Accessibility and
Beautiful Universal Design, both from Wiley.

DEBRA HARRIS, PhD, is President of RAD Consultants,
focusing on evidence-based strategic planning for health care
systems, architects, designers, and product developers. She is a
consultant with more than twenty-five years of practice,
specializing in health care facility design, assimilating research
into evidence-based strategies, and environmental forensics. Her
research focuses on environmental factors affecting patients,
families, and health care workers, including patient and health
care staff outcomes, infection control and transmission, and cost
implications of the physical environment.

Résumé

Praise for Design Details for Health

"Cynthia Leibrock and Debra Harris have developed a vitally important reference. They draw upon and compile a rich source of evidence that supports the application of specific research-based details for particular health-related settings."—From the Foreword by Dr. Wayne Ruga, AIA, FIIDA, Hon. FASID

The revised edition on implementing design details to improve today's health care facilities—an inspiring, comprehensive guide

In this significantly revised second edition, Cynthia Leibrock and Debra Harris offer up-to-date information on design details that can improve patient outcomes and user experience by returning authority to the patient, along with fascinating case studies and research demonstrating the positive role design can play in reducing health care costs. Design Details for Health, Second Edition offers contemporary examples showing how design can improve patient comfort and independence, and demonstrates how to design highly functional health care facilities that operate at peak performance. The book addresses a range of health care facility types including hospitals, ambulatory care, wellness centers, subacute care and rehabilitation, adult day care and respite, assisted living, hospice, dementia care, and aging in place. This Second Edition includes:

• The latest research, which was only anecdotal in nature as recently as a decade ago, illustrating how design through evidence produces measurable outcomes

• Real-world case studies of a range of excellent health care facilities that have been designed and built in the twenty-first century

• Updated contributions with leading practitioners, researchers, and providers conveying how design has a positive impact on health care delivery

When design empowers rather than disables, everybody wins. Sensitive to the needs of both patients and providers, Design Details for Health, Second Edition is essential reading for today's architects, interior designers, facility managers, and health care professionals.

Contenu
A List of Checklists and Special Topics. Foreword.

Acknowledgments.

Part One. Long-Term Care.

1. Assisted Living.

2.Caring for People with Dementia.

3. Home Health Care.

4. Hospice.

5. Subacute Care and Rehabilitation.

Part Two. Ambulatory Care.

6. Day Care and Respite.

7. Medical Offices.

8. Wellness Centers.

Part Three. Acute-Care Hospitals.

9. Birth Centers.

10. Children's Hospitals.

11. Inpatient Psychiatric Units.

12. General Hospitals.

13. Critical Care.

Index.