Infilling the Aging: A Holistic Approach to Urban Care Environments

Kuelbs, Peter

dc.contributor.author	Kuelbs, Peter
dc.description.abstract	“Infilling the Aging: A Holistic Approach to Care Environments” adresses the need for an improved connection between family, community, and those in care-based living. It addresses this issue by questioning the difference between quality of life and quality of living condition. Furthermore, it calls into question the impact that family and community have in promoting an improved quality of life for those who need long-term care. Instead of creating a repository for the elderly, this project seeks to integrate the elderly back into society by defining a new typology that responds to the urban fabric of a community. This improved connection stands to benefit not only the residents and their families, but also the community. Investigating a new typology for long-term care will improve on current traditions of care-based living. By fulfilling this need, new roles can be created and old roles re-discovered among those who need long-term care, their families, and communities. The building typology is a mixed-use senior living facility located in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood. The building consists of 50 units containing 65 beds in 115,000 square feet.	en_US
dc.publisher	North Dakota State University	en_US
dc.rights	NDSU Policy 190.6.2
dc.title	Infilling the Aging: A Holistic Approach to Urban Care Environments	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2012-05-09T22:40:16Z
dc.date.available	2012-05-09T22:40:16Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10365/19969
dc.subject	Long-term care facilities.
dc.subject	Older people -- Dwellings.
dc.subject	Belltown (Seattle, Wash.)
dc.subject	Washington (State)
ndsu.degree	Master of Architecture (MArch)
ndsu.college	Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
ndsu.department	Architecture and Landscape Architecture
ndsu.program	Architecture
ndsu.advisor	Urness, Cindy