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Webinar: Bright Days and Dark Nights – An Important New Direction for Senior Living


When: November 17, 2022
Time: 10:00am Pacific
Price: $65 Individual View/$150 Group View
Registration was open until 11/17/2022 at 2pm, and is now closed.

1 unit EDAC continuing education
1 unit AIA continuing education
IDCEC credit also available**

CEU forms available for download during webinar

CEUs


This webinar is free to our Affiliate+ members.

 

Light and dark are the strongest signals affecting the human biological clock, a physiological system that affects every part of the body. For seniors especially, the consequences of inappropriate light exposure are poor sleep quality and immune system health. 

Additionally, the aging eye faces greater challenges as visual impairment and cognitive decline go hand in hand. As the amount of light for vision and health declines, important blue wavelengths get filtered out by the yellowing lens, and glare sensitivity increases. This dramatically affects the design of facilities for senior living, and individual homes. 

This webinar will highlight research and design strategies to mitigate challenges to the aging eye and cognition. Presenters will explore how daylight and bright electric lighting is even more important, balanced with very low level, warm lighting at night. Think it’s a good idea to mimic trendy hospitality lighting in senior spaces? Think again. For health and safety, we need to dramatically change our design approach.

 

 

Learning Objectives

  • Recognize light and dark conditions as powerful biological agents.
  • Understand the normal decline of the human eye due to aging and how to design to compensate for it.
  • Express why sleep is a critical factor in health and how factors in the built environment can help or hinder sleep. 
  • Apply the lessons of daylight, interior finishes, and nighttime conditions to your projects.

 

 

Presenting Faculty

Eunice Noell-Waggoner, IES

The first half of Eunice Noell-Waggoner’s professional career involved interior and lighting design for public buildings and commercial spaces. The second half of her career has been focused on addressing the needs of older adults, especially focused on lighting for aging vision and health, through the Center of Design for an Aging Society, a not-for-profit organization she founded.

She was the founding Chair of the Illuminating Engineering Society’s (IES) Lighting for Older Adults and the Low Vision Population Committee, and continues to serve on the IES Committee contributing to the update of ANSI/IES RP-28-20 Lighting and the Visual Environment for Older Adults and the Visually Impaired.

In 2017 she stimulated the formation of collaborative research teams to study the impact of LED light and daylight to address circadian disruption in memory care and nursing home residents. The first research project included Brown University School of Public Health Long-Term Care Quality and Innovation Center, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Center of Design for an Aging Society, and the ACC Care Center in Sacramento, CA. The findings have been published on the Department of Energy’s website and in Seniors Housing and Care Journal 2020.

 

Naomi J. Miller, FIES, FIALD, LC

Naomi Miller straddles the line between design and engineering at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Portland, OR. Called a “Senior Scientist,” she uses her decades of experience in architectural lighting design in Upstate New York and San Francisco to educate clients, customers, and practitioners and help nudge the SSL industry toward better, more practical solutions. Researching and reporting on lighting quality issues such as visual comfort, flicker, and light distribution with respect to SSL products, she is the tedious voice of experience. By bridging the gap between technology and application, she can promote the wise use of LEDs, working with industry to overcome the hurdles and celebrate the opportunities. 

She has many years of experience working in different facets of the lighting industry, but still finds lighting to be an intriguing stew of economics, human factors, and physics; an essential element of productivity and comfort; and a visual delight. She recently served on the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Board of Directors and is both a Fellow of the IES and the IALD.  
 

 

Many attendees of The Center for Health Design’s webinars have inquired about IDCEC approval so they can earn ASID, IIDA, and IDS CEU’s. We have looked into this and unfortunately, the cost to upload courses to IDCEC is simply too high at this time. You can still earn credit for attending our webinars by requesting a verification certificate. As of July 9, 2020, The Center for Health Design requires a CEU management fee for verification certificates for all webinars and EBD Journal Clubs. Please contact Natalie Gonzalez, Project Manager, ngonzalez@healthdesign.org. 

For further details about how to self-report CEUs to IDCEC, please CLICK HERE.