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Advocacy in Action: Advocating for a Sense of Place
Building facades are the face of your campus. The porte cochere, balcony details, landscaping and other exterior design elements communicate the essence of your community. The design sets the tone for the experience and creates an architectural relationship with its surrounding neighborhood.
Maximizing Value: Advocating for the Client & Making Strategic Decisions
Real Projects for Real People is a mantra for supporting the continued growth and redevelopment of senior living communities in the New Economy. We’ve talked about Micro-strategies for Creatively Repositioning Your Campus, The Successful Completion of Bite-Sized Projects, Common Spaces that Enhance a Sense of Community, and The New Definition of IL. Tackling and successfully completing these projects require more than a committed team.
Advocacy in Action: Forward-thinking Food Service
Maximizing the dining experience is a priority in the world of senior living. Communities continue to look for ways to enhance services and increase venue options, but challenges remain—How do we efficiently and cost effectively service our dining programs?
Maximizing Value: Centralizing Core Operations
Intense programming to support efficient space planning has always been an integral part of the design process, but as providers look to elevate the senior living experience this critical step continues to receive more attention. This isn’t simply an issue of using space efficiently.
Living Life to the Fullest – Wellness Centers with A Sense of Place
When it comes to a mix of amenities at your senior living community, providers look to offer residents a variety of unique options that set them apart from the competition. However, there is one amenity that has been elevated over the years and continues to gain prominence on campuses.
Advocacy in Action: Lift Systems
As providers look for ways to elevate the level of care they can provide in supportive living environments, more and more communities are evaluating the integration of lift systems in resident rooms.
Senior Living Success Stories
Enjoy Senior Living Success Stories, a digital book that shares AG Architecture’s thoughts on senior living as well as stories of award-winning projects – successful collaborations with forward-thinking providers across the United States.
Real Projects for Real People: The New Definition of IL – “I Live Independently with YOUR help”
With 2014 well underway we have spent time examining common threads in our portfolio of recently completed senior living projects as well as the consistent needs and challenges arising in requests for proposal and projects in the master planning stage. The nature in...
Real Projects for Real People: Micro-Strategies to Creatively Reposition Your Campus
Have you been to senior living seminars in the past featuring $50 million projects and walked away thinking—“That’s terrific, but we are never going to have that kind of money available. I wish they would show me something real that I can accomplish!”
Real Projects for Real People: Commons Spaces Enhance a Sense of Community
When making the decision to live in a senior living community, one might assume that the rhythm of your regular life is gone forever. Your ability to gather with friends, dine when and where you like, socialize at your leisure, nurture your individual talents and interests, and keep physically fit are gone forever, right?