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Post-occupancy evaluation of a transformed nursing home
— the first four Green House settings | | Author(s) | Lois J Cutler, Rosalie A Kane |
| Journal title | Journal of Housing for the Elderly, vol 23, no 4, 2009 |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2009 |
| Pages | pp 304-334 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Nursing homes ; Small ; Design ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Green Houses are trademarked small-house nursing homes first suggested by William Thomas in 1996. The authors study how well the physical environments of four Green Houses served the residents, staff, and visitors. They develop recommendations for similar small-house nursing home projects. Their study is a longitudinal post-occupancy evaluation of four houses using mixed-methods, including behavioural mapping, checklist ratings of individual bedrooms and bathrooms, place-centred time scans, environmental tracers, and questionnaires and interviews. The small residential environments achieved the desired functional results for residents and staff. Some components of the environment proved problematic, especially bathroom designs, lighting and fixtures, and storage spaces. Certain areas of the buildings were under-utilized, particularly a den. Space was used differently in the two houses dedicated to residents with dementia compared to the other two houses. In the latter, residents tended to use their own rooms for a variety of activities, including visits, and often kept their doors closed, whereas in the former the central hearth area was used more frequently. The physical design of the Green Houses was associated with desired behaviour and outcomes in residents and staff. Post-occupancy evaluation methods were useful in eliciting detailed information about environmental performance and in suggesting modifications for the next iteration of Green Houses. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100308201 A |
| Classmark | LHB: 54: 33: 4C: 7T |
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