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Amy Carpenter
PRINCIPAL, SFCS (PHILADELPHIA)
A
MY CARPENTER HAS spent
most of her 30-year career focused
on senior living design,
most recently combining her skills in
research, writing, and interpreting
building codes to drive consensus on
new guidelines and regulations that enhance
the quality of life for seniors. Sitting
on the International Code Council's
(ICC) healthcare committee, she's driven
benefi cial policy changes to support
person-centered care, making notable
contributions to code issues pertaining
to senior living and steering major regulatory
updates.
Specifically, in the past two years,
Carpenter has focused on new language
adoption that will add a section to the
ICC A117.1 Accessibility Standard addressing
toileting and bathing. These
initiatives aim to better support seniors
living in a variety of care settings and allow
them to maintain independence as
long as possible, as well as enable better
support for caregivers. To drive change in
elder toileting requirements, Carpenter
drew from existing research completed
by Margaret Calkins, Jon Sanford, et al.,
to turn the research into code language.
Additionally, she chaired a committee
with representatives from accessibility
groups to review and gain consensus on
the code language, helping set up the
new standard for assisted bathing with
alternate shower configurations, increased
accessibility, and better controls
with shower heads to prevent caregivers
from getting wet.
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Assisted toilet diagram
Backed by research, the new assisted
toileting requirements move beyond the
standard wall-mounted grab bar confi
gurations, which do not work well for
those with upper body strength, balance,
or mobility challenges, to allow for
the use of fold-down, grab bars on both
sides of the toilet. Her work was included
in the 2021 edition of the ICC's International
Building Code and incorporated
into the A117.1 Accessibility Standard,
which is expected to be published
in 2024.
Recognized by colleagues as a " Code
Ninja, " Carpenter's next focus area is researching
how the industry could omit
the need for door closers on assisted living
resident unit entry doors, which can
be diffi cult for frail elders to operate and
often close too quickly, causing injuries.
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