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At the Lantern of
Chagrin Valley in
Chagrin Falls, Ohio,
USA, the memory
care wing brings the
outside in.

AGING
AROUND THE WORLD
What's the secret to a long life?
Where you live plays a part.
Changing Ages

78.3
73.4
51.4

North America

68.6

62.2

Latin America

Asia

Africa

1950
2015

49.1

42.2

Central America

55.4
37.4

75.4

Europe

75.2
70.2

Longest Life Expectancies

1. Monaco (89.5)
2. Japan (85)
2. Singapore (85)
4. Macau (84.5)
5. San Marino (83.3)

6. Iceland (83)
7. Hong Kong (82.9)
8. Andorra (82.8)
9. Switzerland (82.6)
10. Guernsey (82.5)

Sources: CIA World Fact Book, United Nations Statistics Division

At Lantern of Chagrin Valley in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, USA,
the leadership team didn't want to treat the memory care
wing like just another sterile community. Instead, they
wanted it to contribute to residents' daily comfort.
"I noticed that some of our clients would exhibit
agitation, combativeness, anxiety, and depression," says
Sapna Dhawan, M.D., president of the Lantern Group.
"Every evening around 7 p.m., one particular patient
would walk down the corridor requesting breakfast. At
5 p.m. every day, another patient wanted to go home.
And I began to ponder if there was a conceptual design
that could address these challenges. What if we could
have the sunrise and sunset inside the building and let
residents see the moon and stars at night? What if we
designed the units to mimic tiny homes rather than
resident rooms? What if we designed a park-like setting,
with waterfalls and carpet solutions that looked like
grass and pergolas and gazebo?"
So that is what the community did. The memory
care wing features an indoor courtyard complete with
grass-colored carpet, working fountains, and lampposts.
The look is meant to evoke a small town in the 1930s
and 1940s, right down to the paint colors of the rooms,
which were chosen to reflect the preferences in vogue
at the time. Aimed at bringing the outside world in, the
design includes a virtual LED ceiling that mimics the
sky, with the sun rising in the morning, clouds visible
during the day and the sun setting at night.
"Designing the environment like this better enables
our elderly clients to relate to time and space," says
Dhawan. "We've been able to wean some off antipsychotic medications. Exit-seeking behavior decreased
dramatically. Behaviors such as anxiety, depression, and
aggression were significantly lower."
The results are a powerful testament to the
power of design adapting to the needs of shifting
demographics. Getting old is a fact of life, of course, but
it's taking on a new urgency for designers. Q

fall/winter 2016

"

We
design
communities,
not
facilities-
that's the
f-word in
our office."
-Dean Maddalena,
IIDA, AIA,
ASID, NCARB,
president,
studioSIX5, Austin,
Texas, USA

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