(eCornell) Design Consideration for Senior Facilities
About This Course
In this course, you will examine how psychological factors affect our relationship to the environment in senior living facilities and reflect on how well those factors are being applied in a real-life setting. You'll explore how to apply environmental psychology principles to the design of senior living facilities. You'll conduct an online literature review to help inform your design of senior living facilities. To help you better understand the challenges seniors face so that you can design to address those challenges, you'll participate in a hands-on exercise where you simulate the physical limitations that occur naturally in the aging process and then reflect on your experience. The course is provided by eCornell in partnership with Genashtim.
What You'll Learn
Apply principles of environmental psychology to the design of senior living facilities
Conduct an online literature review intended to inform the design of senior living facilities
Practice the empathic model to gain a better understanding of the senior experience