Dochitect
Menu
  • Home
  • Dochitect Bio
  • The Physician-Architect Model
  • Articles & Publications
  • Presentations
  • In the News
  • Contact

Publication type: "Webinars"

January 23, 2025 / Dochitect / Design for Geriatrics

In the News

Organization: The Center for Health Design
Title: Design for Healthy Aging: Innovative and Evidence-Based Practices for Every Setting
Date: January 23, 2025

The Workshop
Aging happens everywhere and with ever-greater frequency. The number of Americans aged 65 and older is projected to increase from 58 million in 2022 to 82 million by 2050 – a stunning 47% increase.

Nowhere is this demographic shift being felt more seismically than in the healthcare and living environments serving our aging population. People aged 65 and older are hospitalized twice as frequently as adults aged 45 to 64. The demand for all types of senior living – independent, assisted, skilled nursing and memory care – continues to outweigh supply.

Yes, it’s a challenge, but it’s also a tremendous opportunity – to re-envision, design and build a new generation of “age-friendly” care and living environments that support the goals of patients, residents, caregivers and organizations, and ultimately produce the best outcomes.

The Design for Healthy Aging workshop will provide you with not just a glimpse into that future, but the research, resources, tools and best practices to help get you there.

Whatever types of environments you are creating – from acute care and ambulatory/outpatient, to independent, assisted living, long term and memory care settings – the innovations, ideas and lessons learned presented by our expert faculty of forward-thinking administrators, policy makers, clinicians and designers will have broad and immediate application and impact.

Age-Friendly Health System Initiatives: The 4Ms (and sometimes 5)What is the near and far future of an Age-Friendly Health System (AFHS)? The national AFHS initiative launched by CMS and IHI, uses a well-established clinical framework, the 4Ms – What Matters, Medications, Mentation, Mobility (and increasingly a 5th M: Multi-complexity) – to advance care for older adults. How do the 4Ms create a framework to think about the built environment? Hear from this panel on the policy, regulatory, and practice initiatives that are underway, and learn about the possibilities that exist to address design for aging in all settings.

Panelists
Alice Bonner, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing CAPABLE Program, Senior Advisor for Aging at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
Diana Anderson, MD, M.Arch, FACHA, Dochitect
Michael McKay, AIA, ACHE, EDAC, LEED AP, NCARB, Planning Design Construction and Corporate Real Estate, UW Health

Read more about the event HERE.

 

Webinars

The Center for Health Design EBD Journal Club: Built Environment Design Interventions at the Exits of Secured Dementia Care Units

December 8, 2022 / Dochitect / Design for Geriatrics, Evidence-Based Design

Webinar

Journal Club Title: Built Environment Design Interventions at the Exits of Secured Dementia Care Units: A Review of the Empirical Literature
Journal Club Date: December 8, 2022
Moderator: Addie M Abushousheh, PhD, EDAC, Assoc AIA
Discussant:
Diana Anderson, MD, M.Arch
Organization:  The Center for Health Design

The EBD Journal Club

Built environment design is recognized as important in the care and management of responsive behaviors for those living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias in secured dementia care units (e.g., exiting attempts, agitation).

The repetitious behavior of “walking with purpose” (previously termed wandering) in those with dementia has influenced safety-related architectural design components of dementia care units that decrease exiting attempts. Empirical literature addressing design interventions to prevent exiting for those with dementia is lacking and outdated.

To advance our understanding, the presenter sought to describe design interventions in dementia care units through a topical analysis of experimental studies. The studies assessed five interior design interventions at egress doorways: implementing horizontal and vertical floor grid patterns, mirrors, murals, conditioning responses to color cues, and camouflaging door hardware or vision panels.

Click HERE for more information.

 

Webinars

AdvantAge Ontario: Designing the Long-Term Care Home for COVID and Beyond

August 31, 2020 / Dochitect / Design for Geriatrics, Design for Infection Control, Design for Resiliency

Webinar

Webinar Title: Designing the Long-Term Care Home for COVID and Beyond
Webinar Date: August 31, 2020
Organization: AdvantAge Ontario

Monday, August 31, 2020 | 2:00pm – 4:00pm 

AdvantAge Ontario is the association of not-for-profit long term care, housing, and services for seniors: “We’ve seen through the pandemic how a long-term care home’s design can acutely influence its ability to prevent and respond to infection outbreaks. But design also affects many other important elements of LTC living. Whether you’re building new, redeveloping, or thinking about adaptations to your existing building, this webinar will equip you with essential knowledge and fresh ideas to consider as you plan. We’ll have a detailed discussion of current design standards and recent changes, what they could mean for your home, and the less understood role of mechanical engineering. Learn about the influence of design on infection control and alternative design approaches that also address other aspects of resident well-being, such as smaller clustered settings. Examples of the impact of design during the pandemic’s spring surge will be reviewed and the implications of provincial funding announcements will be discussed. Bring all your questions for the final part of this timely session.”

Click HERE to access the webinar recording.

Webinars

2020 AIASF Design for Aging Symposium

August 13, 2020 / Dochitect / Design for Geriatrics

Webinar

Webinar Title: Designing for Health: COVID-19 + the Future of Senior Living Architecture
Webinar Date: August 13, 2020
Organization: 2020 AIASF Design for Aging Symposium

Day 1: Thursday, August 13 | 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM (PST) (2.0 LUs)
Designing for Health: COVID-19 + the Future of Senior Living Architecture

Keynote
Rodney Harrell, Ph.D., Vice-President, Family, Home + Community, AARP

Moderator
Kris Rebillot, Director of Communications, Buck Institute

Speakers
Diana Anderson, MD, M.Arch, Dochitect/Principal, Jacobs
Deborah Burnett, ASID, IES, AASM, Principal, Benya Burnett Consultancy
Leslie Moldow, FAIA, Principal, Perkins Eastman
John Newman, MD, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Buck Institute and Division of Geriatrics, UCSF
Leah Witt, M.D., Assistant Professor, UCSF Geriatrics Department of Medicine

Webinars

Paging the Engineers and Architects, STAT: The emergence of the hybrid clinician

May 16, 2020 / Dochitect / Design for Clinical Staff, Evidence-Based Design, The Physician-Architect Model

Webinar

Webinar Title:’Paging the Engineers and Architects, STAT: The emergence of the hybrid clinician
Webinar Date: May 16, 2020
Organization: Clinician Engineer Hub Webinar Series

Overview:
The Clinician Engineer Hub is an international non-profit organisation that aims to bring together the clinical and biomedical engineering field and provide talented medical students and clinicians exposure to the world of clinical medicine, the challenges doctors face in diagnosing and treating patients and how to potentially solve these issues with cutting edge engineering solutions.

For the Clinician Engineer Hub Webinar Series, Dochitect discusses the emergence of the hybrid clinician and the importance of this model in addressing healthcare challenges and innovation.

The webinar recording is accessible HERE!

Webinars

Geriatric Care at the Intersection of Medicine and Architecture

February 27, 2018 / Dochitect / Design for Geriatrics

Webinar

Webinar Title: Geriatric Care at the Intersection of Medicine and Architecture
Webinar Date: February 27, 2018
Organization: Regional Geriatric Program of Toronto

Overview:

Healthcare design’s recent revolution towards improved patient well-being and care delivery has remained similar for several decades. Can we disrupt our current design thinking by combining medicine and architecture in order to reinvent some best practice design trends for an aging community?

By combining the knowledge of geriatric medicine and physical environmental design, the focus on prevention, rehabilitation, and independent living can allow for the building itself to become the fourth healer in addition to the patient, their family members and the clinical care team.

 

Webinar Feedback from Geriatricians, Clinical Staff and Administrators:

“Some of the topics presented have been things I’ve wondered about or thought myself. So this webinar has given me more confidence to suggest changes and to share this same info to others.”

“I will consider this information when doing any type of renovation or furniture purchase for our hospital. With limited funding, we can be creative in how we improve our space to meet the needs of our patients.”

“I will look for opportunities to take patients to windows and more nature friendly spaces when in my care and as much as possible.”

“I may consider approaching the patient differently. I will pass on the information to my CEO. We are currently in the process of building a new hospital and I think the information was amazing.”

“I will consider different options in areas where there is no window or natural light.”

“I will try to remember the inherent dangers that hospitals pose for patients (e.g., infections, falls, de-conditioning, pressure sores, etc) and try to always emphasize prevention over treatment.”

Webinars

Process Improvement & Clinical Efficiency through Facility Design

April 2, 2014 / Dochitect / Design for Critical Care

Webinar

Webinar Title: Lean Planning & Design Innovation
Webinar Date: April 2, 2014
Title: Process Improvement & Clinical Efficiency through Facility Design

WebCast-LeanPlanning-Mar2014-rev2In this webinar presentation, dochitect examines innovative design trends based on clinical practice anecdotes.

  • The notion of medial rounding practice is reviewed and how design can make this daily process of information gathering more efficient is discussed.
  • The changing work hour regulations for clinicians means subsequent space design modifications to support the new model of nocturnal practice are becoming recognized.
  • The need for multidisciplinary teams is reviewed and why the future of patient care will require designated spaces for promoting communication and teamwork is discussed.
  • Through a further understanding of medical conventions, design strategies for ambulatory care are reviewed in order to promote efficient care in the clinic setting.

Click here to see more on innovative design trends based on clinical practice experiences.

Webinars

A Book from Dochitect

The Dochitect’s Journal: A collection of writings on the intersection of Medicine and Architecture

Find out more here.

Search

Recent Articles/Publications

  • Society of Critical Care Medicine 2024 Guideline on Adult ICU Design

    February 21, 2025
  • When Deception Promotes Dignity: The Ethics of Using Illusion to Create Safe Spaces for Persons Living with Dementia

    February 14, 2025
  • Windows in the ICU and Postoperative Delirium: A Retrospective Cohort Study

    January 13, 2025

Recent Presentations

  • Frameworks for Health: Applying Clinical Models to Design

    February 14, 2025
  • January 23, 2025
  • University of Toronto Zeidler-Evans Annual Architecture of Health Lecture: Designing for Older Persons in a Transforming World

    October 17, 2024

Publication Type

  • Blog Post
  • Book
  • Book Chapter
  • Book Review
  • Commentaries
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Peer-Reviewed Design Guidelines
  • Peer-Reviewed Publications

Presentation Type

  • Conference Presentations
  • Keynote Presentations
  • Lectures
  • Panel Discussions
  • Podcasts
  • Webinars

Design Topics

  • Commentaries & Event Reviews
  • Design for Clinical Staff
  • Design for Critical Care
  • Design for Geriatrics
  • Design for Infection Control
  • Design for Palliative Care
  • Design for Patient Safety
  • Design for Resiliency
  • Design for the Future of Health
  • Dochitect in the News
  • Evidence-Based Design
  • General
  • Health Design & Ethics
  • The Physician-Architect Model

Archives

Follow Dochitect

Follow me on:

** ©2025 Dochitect :: Site by KPFdigital :: Admin Login

Cleantalk Pixel