Architecture for Residential Care and Ageing Communities: Spaces for Dwelling and Healthcare
About this ebook
The increasing and diversified demands on the housing market today call for alterability and adaptability in long term solutions for new integrated ways of residing. Meanwhile, an accentuated ageing society requires new residential ways of living, combining dignity, independence and appropriate care. Concurrently, profound changes in technical conditions for home healthcare require rethinking healing environments. This edited collection explores the dynamics between these integrated architectural and caring developments and intends to envision reconfigured environmental design patterns that can significantly enhance new forms of welfare and ultimately, an improved quality of life.
This book identifies, presents, and articulates new qualities in designs, in caring processes, and healing atmospheres, thereby providing operational knowledge developed in close collaboration with academics, actors and stakeholders in architecture, design, and healthcare. This is an ideal read for those interested in health promotive situations of dwelling, ageing and caring.
About the author
Sten Gromark, Dr., Full Professor of Architecture at the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, Architect SAR/MSA as a member of Architects Sweden, and Director of the research environment AIDAH, Architectural Inventions for Dwelling, Ageing and Healthcare supported by Formas from 2013 to 2019. His focus is on critical interpretations of contemporary residential architecture based on humanistic and social science-oriented perspectives.
Björn Andersson, PhD in social work and associate professor at the Department of Social Work, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His research focuses on social relations in urban public space, outreach approaches in social work and social sustainability in urban planning.
