Nursing homes have long been seen as grim and sterile, but during the COVID-19 pandemic, they’ve also been fatal. While elderly people and those with preexisting conditions are high-risk populations, ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It’s not a group you’d expect to find working together, but some of the state’s top health care professionals and designers are searching for solutions to the coronavirus crisis in ...

After long mimicking the hospitality industry’s grand lobbies and communal spaces, long-term care designers are shifting to a “less is more” strategy. “The pandemic highlighted that the same ...

The stark difference between an aged care “home” and a real home has been laid bare by the COVID pandemic. Residential aged care buildings are often institutionally designed, even if they have the ...

Over 40 percent of American deaths attributed to COVID-19 have been nursing home residents. Outdated nursing home designs contributed to the scale of this tragedy in Connecticut. Many design changes ...

How can we create the best possible surroundings for the elderly to live and enjoy their later years? This seems to be the core question behind the Wentworth Grange care home in the North of England.

Diana Anderson, MD, M.Arch, assistant professor of neurology at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, has received a $270,418 grant from the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue ...

DALLAS -- Even in a wheelchair and with sweat pants and T-shirt, David Dillard didn't look like the other nursing home residents. He was 25 years their junior, and he seemed much more curious about ...

The Royal Commission into Aged Care left organisations that provide housing for aged care wondering how they will put its recommendations into effect. Most of these recommendations relate to the ...