Synopses & Reviews
Hospitable Design for Healthcare and Senior Communities Albert Bush-Brown, Ph.D., Hon. AIA, President, AB-BA Dianne Davis, Principal, Hospitality Healthcare Designs Hospitable Design for Healthcare and Senior Communities is a pioneering, comprehensive study of interior and architectural design for healthcare and senior communities. Its central thesis is that physical, mental and emotional well-being are improved by hospitable design and services. The book advocates 27 provocative propositions in essays, written by over 60 contributors in diverse professions, which are aimed at achieving both privacy and community within hospitals, ambulatory care centers, senior communities on college campuses, Continuing care retirement communities (CCRC), and medhotels. It discusses development, governance, and financing. It urges multi-use urban development incorporating senior residences and social agencies. The following issues are also addressed:
- What is hospitable design? What are its economic and therapeutic advantages?
- What is your image of the patient/residentpassive and isolated, or active and creative? What benefits derive from creative engagementin dance, song and painting? From writing, gardening and a role in governance?
- Recognizing the therapeutic value of activity and membership, what should their architectural setting be? What public and communal activity spaces are needed, and how shall those communal spaces be shaped, connected and organized?
- How do you organize space and spatial sequences to achieve privacies and memberships within active healthcare communities? What is the role for horticulture, graphic design, lighting, color and hardware?
- Can three obstacles to gaining successful healthcare and senior communities be overcome: codes, regulations and finances? What is the future CCRC? Will it be urban and multi-generational in a mixed-use project?
Citing national and international examples, Hospitable Design for Healthcare and Senior Communities emphasizes the therapeutic benefits of space, light, landscape, music, art, and poetry. Recent designs are displayed in more than 250 illustrations, 22 in color, which show ways to achieve both privacy and community within settings that stimulate physical, intellectual, aesthetic, and social activity. A singularly philosophical and practical professional reference for designers, architects, developers, investors, administrators, public officials and physicians, Hospitable Design for Healthcare and Senior Communities should be consulted by everyone concerned with health-care and older adults.
Synopsis
(From the Foreword) Their central premisethat healthcare institutions must recognize "two great human needs, our need for privacy and our need for membership" through "hospitable
design and services"is a reminder that the healthcare system we are working to fix involves not only the physical but also the emotional, spiritual, and psychological well-being of the individual. Claiborne Pell U.S. Senator Bush-Brown and Davis have compiled an extraordinary and provocative synthesis of the lessons of nearly a quarter century of design for Older people and healthcare environments. Hospitable Design will be a benchmark resource for policy makers, operators, developers and architects. William T. Eggbeer Vice President-Marketing Manor Healthcare Corp. It is not often that one finds a sensitivity to human needs and to empowerment on the part of those who concern themselves primarily with bricks and mortar. The authors, together with their collaborators, have done a splendid job and the book will be an invaluable resource for those who attempt to meet the explosive demographic needs of the coming decades. Dr. Daniel Thursz, ACSW President The National Council on the Aging, Inc. Washington, D.C. For Hawaii, as for all diverse cultures with aging populations, this book proposes healthcare models that have profound therapeutic potential concerning the quality of life. Robert C. Oshiro Chairman of the Board Queen Emma Foundation Bush-Brown and Davis have assembled a stimulating journey for us into the growing new world of healthcare and retirement environment, emphasizing the human dimension as much as the need for imaginative and rigorous design and financial and organizational structure. Robert N. Butler, M.D. Chairman and Brookdale Professor Ritter Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City Adding life to years has always been the objective of rehabilitation medicinethis book suggests other exciting avenues to enhance these goals. Mathew H.M. Lee, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P. Professor and Acting Chairman Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine New York University Medical Center
About the Author
About the Authors Albert Bush-Brown is President of AB-BAconsultants in organizing, designing and financing residential healthcare and cultural communities. A former director and chairman of Barclays Bank of New York, he currently chairs the Banks Regional Advisory Boards. Dr. Bush-Brown was formerly Chancellor of Long Island University, President of Rhode Island School of Design, and professor at Harvard and MIT. He was Presidential inaugural appointee to the National Council on the Arts, and has been Special Advisor to the Secretary, HUD (Washington); and Managing Director of the Metropolitan Opera (New York). He is the author of numerous essays and books advocating the social and cultural benefits of good design. Dianne Davis founded Hospitality Healthcare Designsa marketing and environmental consulting firm. Known as an industry catalyst, change agent and futurist, Professor Davis has been a leader in creating products and services for hospitality, healthcare and education. Some of her more innovative healthcare projects include designing the first medical professional center in St. Croix and mid-wifery center in Trinidad; and developing New York Universitys Center for the Study of Foodservice Management. Professor Davis has conducted numerous seminars for national and international organizations, including the American College of Healthcare Administrators, The First Annual National Symposium for Healthcare Interior Design, MUFSO, the American Hotel & Motel Educational Institute, and President Reagans Initiative National Conferences for Womens Business Ownership.
Table of Contents
Partial table of contents:
ADVOCACY FOR HOSPITABLE DESIGN.
Architecture and Healing (J. Breakstone).
Passage (L. Syms).
Integrated Design (W. Ruga).
ACTIVITY AND MEMBERSHIP.
Rhythms, Melodies, Poems, and Palettes (A. Bush-Brown).
Sculptural Presences (J. McDonnell).
MEMBERSHIP AND COMMUNAL SPACES.
Dining as Spatial Experience (D. Davis).
The Agora (Z. Rosenfield & J. Hays).
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN.
Individualized Cluster (D. Dunkelman).
ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING.
A Social Prototype (S. Daltas).
Regional Expression (A. Bush-Brown).
HOSPITABLE MODELS.
Easy Street: A Definition (D. Guynes).
SPECIAL DESIGN FEATURES.
Personality of the Chair (E. Claman).
NURTURING THE CARING ENVIRONMENT.
Hospitality Management (S. Porter).
WINDOWS TO THE FUTURE.
Design Opportunities (W. Ruga).
Mixed-Use Urban Development (W. Berger).
Glossary.
Selected Readings.
Index.