Dr. Richard Besdine and Dr. Stefan Gravenstein discuss nursing home environments, and how individualized care models coupled with techology can increase the quality of life of their inhabitants.
An interview with Dr. Richard Besdine, Director of the Brown University Center for Gerontology and co-founder of Harvard Medical School's Division on Aging. An advisor to the NHoF program, he discusses impacts of aging body, mind and coming of baby boomers.
An Interview with Dr. Stefan Gravenstein, Clinical Director of Quality Partners of Rhode Island (QPRI) and Medical Director of Tockwotton Home. He discusses the impact of aging, loss of independence as a result of frailty and how facilities design can reflect better on the Nursing Home of the Future.
An interview with Kevin McKay, Executive Director of Tockwotton Home. The host for the first phase of NHoF program, Kevin discusses about resident centered care, challenges of change and future direction of nursing home.
The NHoF team's deep dive into personal care routines began with a series of design workshops wherein the elders were free to act like design students, with no wrong questions and no bad ideas. See the workshop unfold in high speed.
Hear from a few elder care residents as they share insights about what it means to get older and need help with activities of daily life.
Coughlin is founder and Director of MIT's AgeLab - the first multi-disciplinary research program sponsored by government and business to understand the behavior of the 45+ population as decision-makers, consumers, patients, caregivers, advisers and technology users.
Director of the MIT AgeLab weaves a powerful story about the truth of aging and the social and economic opportunities our country has to make more of, and more for, our elders.
Cottam shares the story of BIF’s Nursing Home of the Future lab.
Learn more about the Business Innovation Factory's Nursing Home of the Future and the platform we've created to design and test new solutions in elder care.
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