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Hospital-Like Care within home for all Ages and Abilities

Shalini Raman Vig, Anil Dewan

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Home is a place of comfort and freedom of expression, movement and existence. For a medically unfit person, home is also a place of solace, healing and recuperation. When it comes to designing a space for a person with disability or limitation owing to age or ill-health, parameters which need consideration are adaptability, safety and simplicity. Patients with chronic conditions requiring long- term care, desire to live a life of dignity and autonomy, in most familiar environs: their homes. Current day technology has enabled healthcare companies to offer sophisticated medical care at home. Facilities like palliative care, acute respiratory services, cancer support services, post trauma/accident care, rehabilitation services are few of the many conditions for which home based care is available. The issue of dove tailing the advancements made by medical science with design interventions (provided by architects and designers) which enable hospital-like care at home, call for an in depth study andanalytical outcomes. The evolving architectural paradigm beckons a look into the current and projected requirements over the next decade.


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