Lori Pinkerton-Rolet, director of Park Grove Design Ltd and host of The Third Age Design Podcast, discusses the recently launched Wellness Interior Design Audit
According to The Journal of Aging Research, older people tend to spend up to 72 per cent of their time inside. It is therefore important that building interiors be assessed against well-defined parameters for wellness — which have not been easy to obtain, until now.
After a year of extensive research, and having been reviewed by an advisory board of sector leaders including Dr. Hilary Dalke, Professor Emeritus-Kingston University UK, Dr. Paul Eshelman, Professor Emeritus-Cornell University US, and Jacqui Smith of Homesmith's UK, we have launched our Wellness Interior Design Audit, or WIDA.
The WIDA is broken into four segments: 1) Interior Environment; 2) Internal/External Links; 3) Daily Life; and 4) Activities, with 145 questions in total, instant scoring, and a recommendations report when completed. Facilities can then take the audit a second time after undertaking any of the recommendations for an updated score, underpinning their commitment to both resident and staff wellness.
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