Presentations
Event: 31st Annual Maine Geriatrics conference, Bar Harbor, ME
Presenter: Diana Anderson
Date: May 23, 2024
Dr. Anderson presented a plenary session entitled Architecture for Aging: The Built Environment as Healthcare.
Session Description:
A growing body of empirical data and evidence-based design research demonstrates that architecture impacts care delivery as well as health outcomes. This talk explores built space as an important determinant of health and questions whether the built environment itself should be considered alongside other parameters of care, analogous to our medical interventions. A current focus on design equity, ensuring overall accessibility to healthcare built space, is explored. It is imperative that we consider a convergence of the healthcare and design disciplines in order to promote novel solutions to augment built environment resilience and subsequently support equitable, safe and efficient care delivery.
Dr. Anderson also hosted a subsequent Fireside Chat to further discuss issues around design and aging.
Session Description:
In this Fireside Chat, attendees will have the opportunity to dive deeper into this topic and Dr. Anderson’s work on design projects within the United States, Canada and Australia. Be part of this open discussion and how her work is not shifting into community living settings.
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