Seriously—no one wants to walk into a dementia care unit where residents are seated around a television. And, unfortunately, we’ve all encountered this before. No one is actually watching the TV, and it’s clear that they were “put” there in order to pass the time. Let’s work on designing a community that’s centered around activities …
I’m sitting at the airport, typing on my Kindle Fire, and I spot something out of the corner of my eye. I reach for it, instinctively, to move it—but I cannot. It’s a bowtie, and it’s just a really crisp photograph that’s built into the tabletop. Oddly, I am slightly alarmed by this. I look …
How many times have you walked into a senior living community and found bizarre, boring, or just plain unattractive artwork on the walls? I know that I have seen this time and time again. Many times, the artwork has almost no rhyme or reason, is hanging in a weird spot, and has a too-large, gold frame …