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

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

Jeffery Beegle
Senior Director of Projects,
Three Pillars Senior Living Communities

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.