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ARCHITECTURE
INTERIOR DESIGN
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Creating Effective Design for Memory Care Communities
In this blog published in January 2020, our designers discuss ways to provide effective design to
memory care communities. At Bernardon, we strive to create customized living communities that focus
on providing comfort, enhanced activity, and social enrichment.
As the demand for memory care services rapidly twenty years, and industry leaders are still learning
grows, the senior living industry is quickly adapting about ways to provide optimum care.
to the needs of residents to provide the most
effective, enhanced long-term care. Designers and At Bernardon, we acknowledge that memory
healthcare providers are exploring ways to elevate care is an ever-changing field. Our recent designs
resident’s living experience through providing for Kendal~Crosslands Communities in Kennett
communities designed around resident’s needs. Square, Pennsylvania and Barclay Friends in West
Chester, Pennsylvania reflect our commitment
No longer are the days of patients being relegated to a thoughtful design approach and genuine
to institutions that lacked healthcare services sensitivity to the client, their residents, and their
specifically dedicated to dementia and related needs. No matter the scope, we strive to create
conditions. Our society has come a long way from customized living communities that focus on
simply placing seniors in nursing homes to wait providing comfort, enhanced activity, and social
out their final days. Yet, memory care is still a fairly enrichment.
new concept, having been developed within the last
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