TIME: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Peggy Chi, a landscape architect and postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto is leading a transdisciplinary knowledge mobilization initiative relating to influences of built, naturalized, and psychosocial environments on both worker and resident outcomes in long-term care. Members are invited to the 2023/2024 Health Services Systems and Policy Seminar Series, entitled "Advances in Aging Environments Research & Practice." Architects can benefit from these seminars to update their knowledge in long-term care as they continue to plan for redevelopments and new constructions of long-term care homes. For more information on the Fall Speaker Lineup, click here. Registration is required to receive zoom links.
These seminars will be held online via Zoom. Zoom links will be sent upon registration on EventBrite. This is an open seminar where everyone within the broad University of Toronto community, and within the networks of University of Toronto community members, are welcome to attend.
2023-2024 Theme:
Advances in Aging Environments Research & Practice: What We Know & Don’t Know About the Influences of Psychosocial & Physical Work Environments on Workers and Their Work
Session Abstract:
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) highlighted the significant impact of Long-Term Care (LTC) home ‘design’ in influencing the quality-of-life (QoL) of residents, their care partners and LTC home staff. Working remotely with a variety of Ontario LTC homes during the pandemic, Carleton University’s Design for Public Health (Design4PH) Lab, situated within the School of Industrial Design, revealed issues with the design of entrances/exits, resident rooms, shared resident areas, work areas, outdoor spaces, storage, soiled/clean zones, among other areas. These flaws were found to negatively impact the quality of resident life, staff working conditions, while heightening the risk of infectious outbreaks due to crowding, inadequate/ unsupportive spaces and other factors undermining infection prevention and control. In response, the Design4PH Lab with the participation of homes, developed design recommendations and concepts to support older adults, care partners and staff in LTC which we will also share at this session.
Speaker:
Chantal Trudel, BA, BID, MSc | Associate Professor, School of Industrial Design at the Carleton University