Identifying anticipated future healthcare needs and planning how to
meet them is an ongoing challenge. Health and care planners,
together with architects an designers, need to ensure that what
they plan today will not be redundant in the near future. This book
examines the key issues which provides must consider in
accommodating health and care needs into the next century.
"Futurecare" provides a clear insight for all those concerned in
the development of health and care buildings and environments, and
examines the core issues which are driving change."
Futurecare" illustrates a wide range of important issues
including healthcare reform and change, community care and
consumer-focused design. It describes the origins of health and
care facility planning and examines the influences which will shape
future directions. Changes in the way health care is - and will be
- delivered are considered, with chapters concentrating on the
future care of our ageing population. Illustrated with photographic
examples of assisted living programmes and long-term care
residential development designs, this innovative text offers
guidance for all those involved in the process of planning health
and care environments.
Key features are:
Focuses on radically changing needs into the 21st century
Examines how current issues will affect future health care
provision
Innovation in caring envionments for older people
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