The assumption underlying this study is that a spatially well planned and
appropriately furnished nursing home facility will help the nurses to perform their
work more effectively and accordingly lead to more satisfaction for the residents.
Research in the forms of a literature review, a movie analysis, and a field study of
nursing homes in Germany and the USA, including plan annotations and
observational mapping, trace study analyses and survey techniques, was conducted
and revealed an unexpected urgent need for nursing home design improvement,
especially in the U.S.
The research results led to the development of a catalogue of patterns which
are useful in the design and planning of a nursing home to improve nurses’
effectiveness in administering care to fulltime residents of nursing homes.
With the help of the developed patterns, suggestions for building renovations
of two of the researched nursing homes, one American and one German, were given. / Department of Architecture
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:123456789/193800 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Peltz, Claudia. |
| Contributors | Harwood, Pamela |
| Source Sets | Ball State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | ii, 246 p. : digital, PDF file, ill. (some col.), plans (some col.) |
| Source | CardinalScholar 1.0 |
| Coverage | e-gx--- n-us--- |
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