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Designing Safer Spaces for Senior Living Communities

In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, our designers share their strategies to enhance communities to
prevent the spread of infectious disease. From responsive living spaces to incorporating the use of PPE
and improved technology, their design approaches are outlined in this blog published in June 2020.

Over the past three months, senior living quarters which can further the spread of infectious
communities across the country have weathered diseases. The design of private rooms, common
unprecedented conditions due to the Covid-19 areas, and outdoor spaces can all be adjusted to
pandemic. As elderly residents are highly create a healthier environment.
susceptible to the Coronavirus disease due to age
and underlying conditions, these communities Adjustments to these living arrangements are
must swiftly adapt as they look to the future of assessed constantly – Bernardon maintains
providing care in a post-Covid world. a conscious effort to implement thoughtful,
customized design solutions within each of our
As designers, we have the ability to assist in these senior living projects – and now more than ever,
adaptations through design solutions that create a our designers are committed to enhancing that
safer environment and deter contamination from approach in light of Covid-19. Below are design
infectious diseases. Driven by economic factors adaptations Bernardon designers recommend when
and the need to foster socialization within these considering updating a senior living community in
communities, residents are often placed in close response to a pandemic:

Pictured Above: Riddle Village LifeCare Retirement Community, Media, PA

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