Design Details for Health : Making the Most of Design's Healing Potential

by Leibrock, Cynthia A.; Harris, Debra D.

• ISBN13: 9780470524718
• ISBN10: 0470524715
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-22
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Significant innovations in healthcare design knowledge have occured in the decade since the first edition of Design Details for Health was published. Evidence is now measurable, revealing just how the physical environment of a building can improve healthcare outcomes and recovery. Updated with the latest research and contemporary case studies, this new edition is a comprehensive primer on healthcare design for multiple typologies—from acute care hospitals to senior living to medical offices and wellness centers. Updated with interviews with leading practitioner and providers, this is a must have for healthcare architects, interior designers as well as healthcare providers.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Expert Focus Topics & Checklists

Foreword

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Long-Term Care

Assisted Living

Caring for People with Dementia

Home Health Care

Hospice

Subacute Care and Rehabilitation

Ambulatory Care

Day Care and Respite

Medical Offices

Wellness Centers

Inpatient Hospitals

Birth Centers

Children's Hospitals

Inpatient Psychiatric Units

General Hospitals

Critical Care

Index

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