Post Occupancy Evaluations
"Hands-on" experiential data is certainly available yet it is often untapped and undocumented. Unique approaches to design and care remain unshared. Post occupancy evaluations (POEs) help identify which design approaches are beneficial and why.
Through data collection and analysis, interviews, on-site observations, graphics and images, POEs evaluate what design features work well, which do not, and provide the foundation for evidence-based design.
Features
Noisy Neighbors
By James Mehaffey, AIA
Moving is always stressful. You have to find enough boxes to hold all your stuff. You have to have utilities shut off in one place and turned on in another, hopefully at the appropriate times. You need a van and a lot of friends who will move you for pizza and beer or soda.
What Can Senior Living Learn from Walkable Urban Environments?
By Gene Guszkowski, AIA
Year after year, the senior living industry has evolved in many ways. The transition to resident-centered care, improvements in service delivery and an ongoing mission to elevate the quality of life for our ever-growing senior population continue to improve this experience. So, why are we so reluctant to change the typical building typology?
Four Ways Senior Living Breaks Down Community Walls
By Cassandra Dowell | Senior Housing News
Expanding a senior living community’s resources to seniors outside campus walls not only meets many seniors’ desire to age in place, but it improves that senior living community’s marketability as well.
The Only Constant is Culture Change
By Steve Leone, AIA, LEED AP
Change is inevitable, change is constant. We all accept that concept until of course, we are inconvenienced by it. We complain about the hectic pace of the modern world while simultaneously making appointments, playing games, sending messages and making calls, on a hand-sized electronic device.
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