Senior Housing News (SHN) is pleased to announce the official start of the 2018 Senior Housing News Architecture & Design Awards. The Awards recognize excellence by celebrating construction and renovation projects that improve the lives of seniors through innovative design. Participants have until October 31, Read More »
Category: Architecture & Design
Senior Living Communities That Have Raised the Bar on Design
Today’s senior housing communities look much different than they did a few years ago—and for good reason. Nowadays, most residents are older, with greater health needs. Their adult children have high expectations of senior housing providers, and care staff are difficult to keep around, especially Read More »
Multifamily Trends May Herald Bigger Senior Living Units
It’s the million-dollar question: what will baby boomers want when they move into senior living communities en masse? One recent debate is whether it’s better to go big or go small with regard to unit size. Some senior living innovators see the future of the Read More »
Best Student Design 2017: High-Tech, Intergenerational Living
In the not-too-distant future, caregivers and doctors could use embedded sensors to remotely monitor senior living residents as they sleep or move about their apartments. And it’s not science fiction. Those forward-thinking ideas were incorporated into the design that won the Student Exhibition category in the Read More »
Best Memory Care Design 2017: A Small House That Really Feels Like Home
Lynn Peel didn’t just want a small house-style memory care community —she wanted a small house. That’s why the standalone memory care community she runs, The Mooring on Foreside, in Cumberland Foreside, Maine, has only 12 residents. “The number 12 was really important,” Peel, founder and principal, Read More »
Best Post-Acute Design 2017: Hospitality, Horses Meet Skilled Nursing
When David Freshwater, chairman of Watermark Retirement Communities, and David Barnes, the company’s president and CEO, set out to build a skilled nursing facility for the first time, they had decades of experience with SNF design to show them what was needed— and what to Read More »
Best CCRC & International Design 2017: Lush Gardens in a Japanese Tower
Despite its location in a city of 1.5 million, the 35-story Sun City Kobe Tower manages to successfully evoke nature. “Even though you’re in a very urban setting, once you walk in the front door, you’re exposed with this incredibly lush garden space,” the project’s Read More »
Highrise Building Boom Continues with Milwaukee CCRC Project
Less than a decade ago, Saint John’s on the Lake constructed a new 21-story tower on its urban campus just north of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Now, the nonprofit continuing care retirement community (CCRC) is about ready to start construction on another tower, this one to Read More »
Best Independent Living Design 2017: Picturesque Pennsylvania Views
When Willow Valley Communities, a non-profit continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, finished work on a sizable independent living project last summer, it added an array of upscale amenities for its roughly 2,300 residents. But one of the most celebrated amenities was also one that stood Read More »
Senior Living Design Trends to Leave Behind in 2018
In senior living, it’s inevitable that some architecture and design features go from hot to not. Resident preferences change, care practices evolve, technology advances, and the way senior housing buildings look and feel has to keep up. So, heading into 2018, providers might want to Read More »
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