Includes bibliographical references and index.

Long-Term Care -- Cost Containment -- Reimbursement Driving Design -- Quality of Residential Long-Term Care -- Design Intervention -- Technology -- Residential Long-Term Care in Other Countries -- Assisted Living Apartments -- Assisted Living in Europe -- Assisted Living in the United States -- Planning Public Spaces -- A Note on Apartments -- Caring for People with Dementia -- Programming for Dementia -- Reducing Distractions -- Establishing Links with the Familiar, Healthy Past -- Providing Sensory Cues to Prompt Memory -- Eliminating Dangerous Options -- Avoiding Confrontations -- Encouraging Successful Social Interaction and Family Participation -- Releasing Excess Energy -- Encouraging Independence -- Home Health Care -- Design Demonstration Centers -- Cohousing -- Group Homes -- Independent Living -- Hospice -- Design Criteria -- Privacy -- Comfort -- Support of Friends and Family -- Hospice for People with AIDS -- Individual Choice -- Infection Control -- Security -- Subacute Care and Rehabilitation -- Design of Subacute Care Facilities -- Design for Visual Acuity -- Design to Enhance Hearing -- Design for Improved Cognitive Ability -- Design for Mobility -- Other Sensory Issues -- Design of Rehabilitation Facilities -- Psychiatric Rehabilitation -- Physical Therapy -- Occupational Therapy -- Specialized Services -- Ambulatory Care -- Health Care Cost Containment -- The Missing Component: The Educated Consumer -- Day Care and Respite -- Adult Day Care and Respite -- Day Care for People with Dementia -- Child Day Care -- Medical Offices -- Reception -- Examination and Consulting Rooms -- Specialized Practice -- Allergy Clinics -- Pediatrics -- Ambulatory Surgery -- Oncology -- Wellness Centers -- Transforming Hospitals into Wellness Centers -- Design Elements -- Fitness Area -- Nonmember Spaces -- Locker Rooms and Wet Areas -- Inpatient Hospitals -- Birth Centers -- Innovations in Birth Centers -- The Birth Room -- Hospitable Environments -- Children's Hospitals -- Efficacy -- Comfort and Safety -- A Sense of Belonging -- Positive Distraction and Diversion -- Inpatient Psychiatric Units -- Normalization -- Patient Independence -- Integration of the Family -- Treatment and Therapy -- The Body-Mind Connection -- Medical Hotels -- Cooperative Care Model -- VIP Suites -- General Hospitals -- Innovations in Service Provision -- Lessons from Planetree -- A Study in Context -- Critical Care -- Emergency Departments -- Intensive Care Units -- Universal Patient Rooms -- Specialized Intensive Care Units -- Cardiac Intensive Care Units -- Neonatal Intensive Care Units -- Family Waiting Rooms.

Design details -- such as furnishings, finishes, wall and floor coverings, lighting, and color schemes -- are an essential part of a healthcare facility's interior environment, influencing a patient's independence, comfort, and healing, as well as the facility's staff resources and overhead costs. Drawing on the latest international research, this book showcases a range of design details and practical design solutions that are right in step with today's healthcare delivery systems.