Aging in Place: Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment

By Ellen D. Taira and Jodi Carlson

Book Overview

Aging in Place: Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment gives you a complete examination of current trends in adaptive home designs for older adults. As an occupational therapist, designer, architect, planner, social worker, community organizer, or gerontologist, you will explore innovative home designs and studies for creating environments that offer optimal living for aging adults. Complete with diagrams, floor plans, and tables, Aging in Place helps you to improve the quality of life for the elderly by offering them these state of the art designs that provide independence and dignity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789009897
• ISBN13: 9780789009890
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"