AGH 2022: A glimmer of home: Evolving frameworks in the design of long-term care environments for older adults |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=agh2022 |
Submission deadline | January 15, 2021 |
Background
Within the long-term care arena, there is a clear need for a publication that can represent recent advances in theoretical understanding, methodological innovations, and empirical evidence in health care environments for older adults. Due to this unprecedented time in the healthcare industry, we see this edited volume as an opportunity to update and expand the knowledge around the long term care built environment.
Abstract
The global population of adults 65 years of age and older will increase dramatically over the next several decades, presenting economic and social challenges requiring sustainable solutions. These health and socioeconomic challenges will have implications for individuals older than 65 years and their families and communities, requiring integrated solutions that should be addressed simultaneously through the lens of realistic and evidence-based goals. Recently, almost all healthcare settings have been particularly hard-hit by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic which can be lethal to older adults with or without any underlying health conditions. The double societal hit of our aging community and infectious disease outbreaks like the COVID-19 pandemic has raised great concerns for the future of care settings for older adults in need of long-term care. In addition to the need for improved safety precautions infection control, it is also imperative that mental health and psychosocial support be concurrently delivered, calling attention to the urgent need for alternatives to traditional care settings.
This proposed edited volume will present a collection of essays focusing on the role of the built environment in the continuum of long-term care (LTC) by representing recent advances in theoretical understanding, methodological innovations, and empirical evidence. The volume will offer contributions from notable researchers and scholars in Environmental Gerontology and Healthcare Architecture on new and emergent research and design that can effectively inform and reshape the planning and design of long-term care environments. With diverse topics, in theory, substantive issues, and methods, this edited volume will cover a range of innovative programming, environments, and technologies that can impact the changing needs and support for older adults and their families across the continuum of care. This wide lens will appeal to broad audiences, including researchers, practitioners, educators, policymakers, and students associated with healthcare settings, in particular those aligned with older adults in need of long-term care.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and NOT simultaneously submitted to another journal, conference, any publication houses. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Impact of COVID-19 in the Continuum/Trajectory of Long-term Care
- Case Studies: Built or Unbuilt Project Examples in the Design of Long-term Care Environments
The above submissions are welcome under the following four thematic sections. You are also welcome to submit your research/project if it does not fit within these four thematic sections but extensively focusing on the long-term care environments for older adults.
- Home Care/ Family Caregiving: Independent Living, Aging in Place, Assistive Technology
- Community/ Facility-Based Care: Assisted Living, Skilled Nursing, Nursing Home
- Memory/ Dementia/ Alzheimer’s Care
- End of Life Care: Hospice and Palliative Care
Length
Theoretical chapters: 3500-4000 words with up to five (5) images
Case Study chapters: 1000-1500 words with up to ten (10) images
Timeline
January 15, 2021: Abstract and Title
July 30, 2021: First draft of the chapter
September 15, 2021: Feedback to the authors
December 01, 2021: Final paper submission
List of Topics
- Topic 1: Impact of COVID-19 in the Continuum/Trajectory of Long-term Care
- Topic 2: Case Studies: Built or Unbuilt Project Examples in the Design of Long-term Care Environments
- Topic 3
Committees
Program Committee
- Person 1 Dr. Farhana Ferdous
- Person 2 Dr. Emily Roberts
- Person 3
Organizing committee
- Person 1 Dr. Farhana Ferdous
- Person 2 Dr. Emily Roberts
- Person 3
Publication
A glimmer of home: Evolving frameworks in the design of long-term care environments for older adults” edited book will be published in 2022.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to
<farhana.ferdous@howard.edu>
<emily.roberts12@okstate.edu>