Environments for Aging - Spring 2015 - 18

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United HomeCare, a nonprofit home
health and community care organization, wanted to make a statement when
it broke into the assisted living market in
early 2016. Its new 89,000-square-foot
community, The Residences of United
HomeCare in Miami, features 122 studio
and one-bedroom apartments, terrazzo
flooring, modern furniture, and all the
amenities residents expect today, including a fitness center, library, activities room,
and on-site chef.
But it didn't stop there. In the lobby and
first-floor lounge, Maria Torre, executive director of The Residences of United
HomeCare, curated a collection of contemporary Caribbean artwork by Cuban artists
with South Florida ties. "I wanted to open up
with a wow factor," she says.
The 18 pieces, on consignment for six
months, feature the work of six contemporary artists, including Sergio Payares,

Kendal at Granville in Granville, Ohio,
which includes a mix of renovations and
additions. The Cottages at Hearthstone in
Pella, Iowa, and The Neighbors of Dunn
County in Menomonie, Wis.-both providing
skilled nursing care-take the approach
of grouping a number of smaller woodframe structures, each including one or
more households, into familiar residential
"neighborhoods," thereby creating a homelike sense of place that extends beyond the
confines of the individual dwelling.
As we've seen with other projects, as
cycle.
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new community. He says it's been well
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is a logical
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tive, for United HomeCare,
says research
neighbors.
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on seniors
open
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delaying the onset of Alzheimer's
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community,disease
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art program
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living communities.

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