Video Series: Residential Care Facilities
FGI is pleased to present this video series showcasing experiences and perspectives of individuals working and living in person-centered residential care settings. Titled Residential Care Guidelines: A Provider, Designer, and Regulator Perspective, the series is comprised of 24 short videos, which run from two to nine minutes each. The topics covered range from creating community to sustainable design to the relationships between residents and care providers. Taken together, the series highlights the relevance, utility, and application of the minimum requirements and guidance offered in the Guidelines for Design and Construction of Residential Health, Care, and Support facilities. This production has been generously sponsored by Mannington Commercial.
Culture Change – No More Institutional Care Model
The CEO of a senior living community explains the philosophical and economic forces behind the differences between the traditional and household models and today’s choices for how people want to live.
Person-Centered Care Households – A Caregiver’s Perspective
A caregiver at a senior living community describes how residents choose the flow of their day instead of adhering to facility schedules.
Resident Feels at Home
A caregiver at a senior living community describes how residents bring their own furnishings and personal items from their previous home to decorate their rooms to create a home environment.
A Great Bathing Experience
Residents have showers inside their personal unit instead of having to walk down the hall for a shower.
Household: Resident Choice and Quality of Life
In a household model, the kitchen remains the heart of the home and residents can get food or snacks anytime.
Continuum of Care
The increased recognition of the continuum of care has resulted in more services being available in different residential settings including independent living communities.
Independent Living Model Plus at Garden Spot Village
A senior living community provider describes housing accommodating extended family or unique family needs.
Adult Day Care – Day and Night Programming
Providers are beginning to offer adult care programs during night hours.
Sustainability – ASHRAE 189.1 and the New ASHRAE 189.3 for Health Care
Designing for sustainability was expanded with the introduction of the standard, ASHRAE 189.3, Design, Construction and Operation of Sustainable High Performance Health Care Facilities, which was developed for specific facility types in the health care continuum.
Senior Living Sustainability Guide® as a Process Guide
The Senior Living Sustainability Guide® was structured to serve as a process guide for considering the physical setting, operations, organization, and the resident in the social-cultural context.
State Adoption and Use of the Guidelines – Regulator, Provider, and Designer Perspective
A regulator, community provider, and designer discuss state adoption and use of the Residential Guidelines for different facility types.
A Resident’s Perspective – Loving the Household and Care
A resident describes her daily experiences, choices, and opinions about services, food availability, family interactions, and skilled care.
A Resident’s Perspective – Volunteering as a Key Part of Life
A resident describes her career, expectations of the community, and her preferred activities, including volunteering in the community.
Saving Real Money – ROI Results from the Planning Process
This segment highlights how the Residential Guidelines improves return on investment on the facility and resident satisfaction.
First Costs and Human Costs
The panel gives examples of the cost of design changes and decreasing risk in a residential setting.
Environment of Care Considerations: Person-Centered Care
A review of Environment-of-Care components within a functional program shows how preplanning based on the characteristics of residents has a significant and lasting impact on resident experience.
Importance of the Resident Safety Risk Assessment
A senior living community provider and a building designer explains how the Resident Safety Risk Assessment informs functional planning and the positive benefits and outcomes for residents.
Transformation from Traditional Model into a Household Model
A designer describes a project where the traditional model of space layout was converted to a household type of environment.
Institutional Model as a Last Resort
A senior living community provider describes the direction of marketplace and social forces encouraging people to choose environments that allow choice for people to live the way they want to live day to day instead of in an institutional/traditional environment.
The Center of “Home” is the Kitchen
The traditional nurses’ station in the center of the household is replaced by the kitchen with sounds and smells of normal daily life giving a sense of home and comfort.
Importance of Residential Scale
The designer reports increased awareness of scaling projects for residential homes, so they feel and sound like a home, not an institution.
Part of the Family
A caregiver describes a resident whose mood and outlook greatly improved after experiencing the home and family environment at the senior living community.
Trending Multi-Generational Settings
Some communities are responding to the trend to accommodate multi-generational families and include participation of the outside community.
A Sustainable Life
More and more people choose to live in their homes longer, so there is a need to design environments for longevity.