Longterm Impact From COVID-19 Expected For Senior Facilities

Facility design will need to enable residents to be smarter about living together


COVID-19 is  expected to have a longterm effect on senior living facilities. Future  Facility design will need to enable residents to be smarter about  living together, according to an article on the Colorado Real Estate Journal website

Some sort of physical quarantining  option is likely to be the new normal for senior living communities. 

Settings for physical distancing that will be incorporated into buildings include widening corridors to 10 feet so residents and staff can comfortably pass each other without encroaching on the six feet of recommended spacing for social separation. 

Isolated “visitation” rooms where guests can enter directly from the outside – without entering the main building – and can see visit through a picture window and  intercom system may also be necessary.

Much of the effects of the pandemic is in nursing homes, veterans’ homes and other long-term care facilities, according to an  article. on the STAT website. At the end of April, with data available from 30 states, in one-third of them more than 40 percent of the statewide Covid-19 deaths were in long-term care facilities.

Read the full Colorado Real Estate Journal article.

 

 



August 11, 2020


Topic Area: Infection Control


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