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Get the latest trends, tools, and resources for improving healthcare environments here. Browse our many free and members-only resources, including research reports and issue briefs, interviews, case studies, design strategies, lessons learned, key point summaries, and webinars.

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    New Strategies for Evaluating Patient Room Design Features Using Mock-ups and Simulations
    February 2024 ∘ Webinar

    In this webinar hear what happened when two of the industry’s leading healthcare design researchers teamed up with senior leaders in Project Planning and Nursing from Indiana University Health Adult Academic Health Center to take their design decision-making to the next level. They’ll share their highly-collaborative design and evaluation process along with the unique patient room design insights they uncovered.
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    An Intergenerational and Inclusive Future for Aging
    December 2023 ∘ Webinar

    This webinar presents opportunities to support each individual within various types of settings – providing supportive and sustainable design solutions for residents, staff, and families. Examples of innovative solutions provide a framework for an all-inclusive approach to the design of environments for aging. Join us for this conversation that supports sustainable and healthy living for residents of all ages. This includes opportunities for you, as the influencer of change, to assist vulnerable populations with creative solutions that continuously support quality of life.  
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    Updating and Activating an Evidence-based Design Lexicon for Aging and Dementia: Notes from the Field
    December 2023 ∘ Webinar

    In this webinar, presenters will share insights gleaned from a collaborative endeavor to identify outcome-driven evidence-based design strategies. This initiative expanded the reach beyond the confines of long-term care, engaged students in the review of evidence-based literature, and pilot tested memory-care design strategies in renovation and new construction conditions. Presenters will share the resulting open-access evidence-based design resources that are available to all care providers and designers and identify opportunities for their application.  
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    Providing for the Providers – Embracing Design for Staff
    August 2023 ∘ Webinar

    This webinar will highlight design solutions on both the departmental and facility scale, and through case study examples, identify key strategies to promote staff-centered design.  
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    Nature, Design, and Health: Explorations of a Landscape Architect
    November 2023 ∘ Webinar

    Drawing upon his book of the same title, this webinar chronicles Kamp’s design approach, dedicated to connecting people with nature regardless of their capabilities — from children with autism spectrum disorder to elders with cognitive and physical challenges. He has also explored these ideas in the larger realm, showing how engaging individuals in the stewardship of nature is a critical component of revitalizing hospitals, parks, schools, and communities, and essential to sustaining international programs combating climate change. 

     
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    Rebuilding Human Performance—The Intersection of Neuroscience and Architecture
    October 2023 ∘ Webinar

    This webinar will explore experience design in a new light. Attendees will dive into experience mapping and learn about tools created for planning, design, and construction teams to guide design decision making. Explore a multifaceted approach that layers qualitative and quantitative evidence-based design with color and light theory to create an environment focused on health, hope and healing for all.  
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    Harnessing the Power of Sound in Senior Living — Insights from Sonic Treatment Research in Memory Care
    September 2023 ∘ Webinar

    During this webinar, you’ll hear how Garden Spot Village in New Holland, PA, partnered with a sonic treatment composer and a gerontological researcher to study whether purposeful sonic environments can help reduce the stresses associated with declining physical ability and memory loss. The partners will describe the design, execution, and outcomes of their research and share their suggestions for using the power of sound to improve quality of life for older adults.  
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    Finding the Evidence — Nursing Home Research that Measures Impacts and Change
    September 2023 ∘ Webinar

    This webinar presentation will demonstrate how various forms of research can be used to understand the impacts and outcomes of care and the environment where it is delivered.  
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    The State of the Healthcare Design Industry: Perspectives on Health Equity and Wellness
    August 2023 ∘ Webinar

    This webinar offers a unique opportunity to hear about the state of the industry on this issue from the perspective of the associations that make up our industry.  Hear their perspective on where we’ve come and where we’ve yet to go. Leaders from national organizations representing the healthcare design industry will share their insights on inroads made by their respective organizations (and the professions that they represent) and identify the next steps the professions can take collectively to move the needle forward. This conversation will explore the many opportunities available to leverage that collective power in the pursuit of diversity, equity and inclusion.