Design Details for Health: Making the Most of Design's Healing Potential, 2nd Edition

In this significantly revised second edition, Cynthia Leibrock and Debra Harris offer up-to-date information on design details that can improve patient outcomes and user experience by returning authority to the patient, along with fascinating case studies and research demonstrating the positive role design can play in reducing health care costs. Design Details for Health, Second Edition offers contemporary examples showing how design can improve patient comfort and independence, and demonstrates how to design highly functional health care facilities that operate at peak performance. The book addresses a range of health care facility types including hospitals, ambulatory care, wellness centers, subacute care and rehabilitation, adult day care and respite, assisted living, hospice, dementia care, and aging in place.

This Second Edition includes:

• The latest research, which was only anecdotal in nature as recently as a decade ago, illustrating how design through evidence produces measurable outcomes
• Real-world case studies of a range of excellent health care facilities that have been designed and built in the twenty-first century
• Updated contributions with leading practitioners, researchers, and providers conveying how design has a positive impact on health care delivery

When design empowers rather than disables, everybody wins. Sensitive to the needs of both patients and providers, Design Details for Health, Second Edition is essential reading for today's architects, interior designers, facility managers, and health care professionals.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Assisted Living.
• 2.Caring for People with Dementia.
• 3. Home Health Care.
• 4. Hospice.
• 5. Subacute Care and Rehabilitation.
• 6. Day Care and Respite.
• 7. Medical Offices.
• 8. Wellness Centers.
• 9. Birth Centers.
• 10. Children's Hospitals.
• 11. Inpatient Psychiatric Units.
• 12. General Hospitals.
• 13. Critical Care.