TIME: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Peggy Chi, a landscape architect and postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto is leading a transdisciplinary knowledge mobilization initiative relating to influences of built, naturalized, and psychosocial environments on both worker and resident outcomes in long-term care. Members are invited to the 2023/2024 Health Services Systems and Policy Seminar Series, entitled "Advances in Aging Environments Research & Practice." Architects can benefit from these seminars to update their knowledge in long-term care as they continue to plan for redevelopments and new constructions of long-term care homes.
These seminars will be held online via Zoom. Zoom links will be sent upon registration on EventBrite. This is an open seminar where everyone within the broad University of Toronto community, and within the networks of University of Toronto community members, are welcome to attend. Registration is required to receive zoom links.
2023-2024 Theme:
Advances in Aging Environments Research & Practice: What We Know & Don’t Know About the Influences of Psychosocial & Physical Work Environments on Workers and Their Work
Session Abstract:
Addressing how the built environment impacts the quality of life of older adults, we will review both the current and future state of healthcare environments for primary, acute and post-acute care; and we will do this by considering both older adults who receive care (Patients, Families, and Community) as well as older adults providing care (Staff and Physicians). Attendees will gain a full understanding the tools (i.e. standards and best practices) available to designing universally for older adults. While the majority of these tools have been developed over the past few decades, there are still exists serious gaps in our healthcare environmental models that expose the issues related to lack of understanding the health quality needs of older adults in both the place of care and the workplace. To help close this gap, this seminar will offer case studies of national and international projects that start to address this gap.
Speaker:
Cliff Harvey | Joint Vice President, Redevelopment, Grand River Hospital