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WORKSHOP | Design for Healthy Aging: Innovative and Evidence-Based Practices for Every Setting


When: January 23, 2025
Time: 8:00am Pacific
What: Agenda
Price: $195 Early Bird thru 12/15/24; $245 after. Affiliate Discounts Apply
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AGENDA

Workshop Hours

8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacfic 
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM Eastern

Backstage Pass Hours

12:05 PM - 12:35 PM Pacific
3:05 PM - 3:35 PM Eastern

3.5 CEUs

Aging happens everywhere and with ever-greater frequency. The number of Americans aged 65 and older is projected to increase from 58 million in 2022 to 82 million by 2050 – a stunning 47% increase.

Nowhere is this demographic shift being felt more seismically than in the healthcare and living environments serving our aging population. People aged 65 and older are hospitalized twice as frequently as adults aged 45 to 64. The demand for all types of senior living – independent, assisted, skilled nursing and memory care – continues to outweigh supply.

Yes, it’s a challenge, but it’s also a tremendous opportunity – to re-envision, design and build a new generation of “age-friendly” care and living environments that support the goals of patients, residents, caregivers and organizations, and ultimately produce the best outcomes.

Now in its seventh year, the Design for Healthy Aging workshop will provide you with not just a glimpse into that future, but the research, resources, tools and best practices to help get you there.

Whatever types of environments you are creating – from acute care and ambulatory/outpatient, to independent, assisted living, long term and memory care settings – the innovations, ideas and lessons learned presented by our expert faculty of forward-thinking administrators, policy makers, clinicians and designers will have broad and immediate application and impact.

 

 

Early Bird
12/15/24

Regular

Affiliate+ (20% Discount)

$156.00

$196.00

Corporate Affiliates (15% Discount)

$165.75

$208.25

Professional Affiliates (10% Discount)

$175.50

$220.50

Student & Individual Affiliates (5% Discount)

$185.25

$232.75

Regular Price

$195.00

$245.00

 

Healthy Aging by Design Showcase

Celebrating Groundbreaking Achievements and Innovations

This workshop is being produced and presented by The Center for Health Design in collaboration with Design for Aging (DFA), an AIA Knowledge Community, and the Society for the Advancement of Gerontological Environments (SAGE), and in partnership with LeadingAge and The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care.

Sponsor Partner:

 

Presenting Faculty

Welcome Opening Remarks & Introductions

Addie Abushousheh, PhD, Assoc. AIA, EDAC
Research Associate,
The Center for Health Design

 

 

 

Opening Keynote: I Can See the Future, and It’s All of Us

Why do we need to think about aging in everything we design? What does it mean to see every environment through an aging lens? There’s a lot of talk about engagement, empowerment, and inclusivity in design, but what does that really mean and how does it impact how we design environments in vast continuum of healthcare?

A past recipient of the Rochester Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 award, Marvell Adams, Jr., CEO of the Caregiver Action Network will set the stage with his work advocating for aging through distributed leadership and the influential role of the built environment in both care and caregiving.

Marvell Adams Jr.
Founder & CEO,
W Lawson

 

 

 

Presentation — Using Insights From Allied Fields to Inform Design

How do we leverage practice, policy, existing infrastructure and the lessons learned from other fields to create environments that foster respect and empowerment for older patients and residents? 

The Montessori approach is often associated with early education, where children are empowered to learn at their own pace in their own ways. Jennifer Brush, MA, SLP, and Director of Brush Development is the first to implement Montessori principles in dementia care. Her approach of moving “From Can’t to Can Do” has broad implications in how we think about what matters, whether we are designing policy or environments.

Jennifer Brush, MA, SLP
Director,
Brush Development

 

 

 

Jake Quigley
Vice President of Operations,
Benchmark Senior Living

 

 

 

 

Presentation — From Opposition to Opportunity: Capitalizing on Community Connections

As we continue to pursue expanded access to healthcare into our communities, we inevitably face the toughest question – “where?”

Blurred boundaries between facility campuses and surrounding communities can often times raise the emotional temperature in a room of competing interests. Increasingly, however, we are finding that thinking strategically about facility locations can create positive linkages to the community while reducing the burden of care and amenities on a single institution. Advancing a premise of “Cognability,” we will look at age-friendly systems that support brain health later in life through physical and social connection.

Migette L. Kaup, PhD, FIDEC, FGSA, ASID, IIDA, NCIDQ, EDAC
Resilient Aging Environments Network | Facilitator,
The Center for Health Design

 

 

 

Margaret Suit
VP of Architecture, Design & Development, 
Erickson Senior Living

 

 

 

Vassar Byrd
CEO,
The Kendal Corporation

 

 

 

Jessica M. Finlay, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Institute of Behavioral Science,
University of Colorado Boulder

 

 

 

 

Presentation —  Rethinking the Essential Role of Family in Care Environments

We often talk about person-centered care and meaningful engagement of users, but who really has the best voice to advance improved care and outcomes? In this session, we will touch on the Essential Caregiver’s Act, aimed at ensuring that family members and essential caregivers can maintain access to their loved ones, especially during times of crisis or public health emergencies. Focused on long-term care, we will look at a novel new place type – it wasn’t defined anywhere, but it wasn’t disallowed either. Understanding the “who and the “why” led to a novel “what,” along with a lot of “how”!

Robin DeLieto, CNE, GRI
Owner/Broker DeLieto RE, Member, CT Statewide FC, Member,
Moving Forward Coalition

 

 

 

Steve Lindsey
Chief Executive Officer,
Garden Spot Communities

 

 

 

Melody Karick, CDP, CMDCP, PCHA, VDTCT, PAC
Dementia Educator and Consultant,
The Forgeworks

 

 

 

 

Presentation —  Age-Friendly Health System Initiatives: The 4Ms (and sometimes 5)

What is the near and far future of an Age-Friendly Health System (AFHS)? The national AFHS initiative launched by CMS and IHI, uses a well-established clinical framework, the 4Ms – What Matters, Medications, Mentation, Mobility (and increasingly a 5th M: Multicomplexity) – to advance care for older adults. How do the 4Ms create a framework to think about the built environment? Hear from this panel on the policy, regulatory, and practice initiatives that are underway, and learn about the possibilities that exist to address design for aging in all settings.

Alice Bonner
Director of Strategic Partnerships, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing CAPABLE Program, Senior Advisor for Aging at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

 

 

 

Diana Anderson, MD, M.Arch, FACHA
Dochitect

 

 

 

 

Michael McKay, AIA, ACHE, EDAC, LEED AP, NCARB
Planning Design Construction and Corporate Real Estate,
UW Health

 

 

 

Panel Discussion with Presenting Faculty

Pose questions to the panelists and hear their responses and insights.

 

Audience Q&A with Presenters

 

Adjourn Day

 

Backstage Pass

Join us for a post-workshop social event with workshop faculty.