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:
While evidence is clear that most people would prefer to age at home, this isn’t feasible for everyone, so many older adults move into a shared residential setting, ranging from supportive or assisted living to nursing homes/residential care home. These are amongst the most frail individual in our society, and according to the competence-press model of Lawton and Nahemow (1983) they are most sensitive to both supportive environments and settings that are less supportive of their preferences, abilities and needs. The philosophical shift from viewing these settings as just a place to care for old people to homes where older people live, people who deserve to have meaningful lives and relationships, and yes, even fun, had resulted in major shifts in the design of these settings. This session will review several decades of research on the impact of the designed environment on residents of shared residential settings.
Speaker:
Margaret Calkins, PhD | President of I.D.E.A.S. Inc. (a research and consulting group)