ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION ARTICLES
Getting outdoors: the key to boosting residents’ wellbeing
Getting outdoors in communal gardens, or within the wider community, can have a real impact on the health and wellbeing of people living in care homes. Cheryl Baird, group director of quality and care at Orchard Care Homes, offers some tips for utilising your home’s outdoor spaces
Designing a care home for those living with dementia
Elizabeth Butcher, head of marketing at care home supplier Blueleaf Care, explains that while designing a safe physical environment for people living with dementia might be challenging, it is nonetheless essential
Modernisation of the care home sector
The past few decades have seen a massive expansion of for-profit care homes for older people. Here, William Laing, executive chairman of LaingBuisson, discusses current trends in the sector and likely future developments
Brownscombe House: CHD Living celebrates forty years of care
Family-run CHD Living recently marked its 40 year anniversary with a celebration at Brownscombe House, the provider’s first care home. The Care Home Environment Editor Matt Seex attended the event to chat with CHD Living director Shaleeza Hasham and founder and CEO Liakat Hasham about the changes that have been made to Brownscombe House over the years, and CHD Living’s past, present, and future
Designing for dementia: the key principles
Every three minutes, someone in the UK develops dementia. As such, the need for additional capacity within the care home market is likely to rise, meaning existing facilities will need to be expanded or updated to meet this demand. However, when it comes to redesigning spaces, it is important to understand how the design of a space can affect those living with dementia. Here, Andrew Cleaver, national sector manager for healthcare at Dulux Decorator Centre, explores the key design principles to consider when designing for dementia
Dementia-friendly design on a budget
With budgets under continued pressure, Kerry Southern-Reason, CEO of Care Home Interiors Group, looks at how dementia-friendly design need not come with an off-putting price tag
How Bowgreave Rise keeps residents HAPPI
Rebecca Stuart-Jack, marketing assistant at architects PRP, discusses the design ethos and construction process behind a new £6m care home project in Lancashire
Luxury care in Bath: Hallmark takes the plunge
The Care Home Environment editor Matt Seex visited Hallmark Luxury Care Homes’ Midford Manor in historic Bath, Somerset, to learn about the importance the award-winning provider places on forging strong, lasting links with the local community, and to take an in-depth tour of this stunning new home
A vision of exceptional care: the Boutique approach
This year marks a significant milestone for Boutique Care Homes – it has been five years since the small, family-run care provider opened its first home, The Burlington, in Shepperton, Surrey. Founder and managing director Ameet Kotecha looks back at Boutique’s journey so far
Development in the green belt
Melissa Magee, company director and architect at Carless + Adams, discusses the sensitive issue of building on the green belt and how this sensitivity affects planning permission for new care homes, and explains why action is needed now to avoid greater problems in the future
Putting down the pen: non-drawing design interventions
Designing gardens for care settings can be both challenging and highly rewarding, but how do we ensure that new outside spaces are still being used in the longer term? According to garden designers Debbie Carroll and Mark Rendell of Step Change Design, non-drawing design interventions might be the answer
Stairlifts and home lifts: time to raise your game
As the design of stairlifts and home lifts continues to be enhanced by the latest technology, an increasing number of care providers are installing them in new builds and retrofitting them in existing buildings to make them fully accessible to residents, staff, and visitors.
The Jubilee Suite: Abbot Care Home’s royal transformation
Josh Potter, PR & communications business partner at Excelcare, discusses a recent interior renovation project at Abbot Care Home in Essex that was inspired by Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
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