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Topic- Construction
Age-friendly facilities: 99 questions to assess your center
The International Council on Active Aging (ICAA) and the North Carolina Office on Disability and Health (NCODH) bring you this comprehensive checklist to help you evaluate how usable, safe and inviting your facility is for older adults.
As you tour your facility, please answer the following questions with a Yes or No. If you aren't sure about something, note this item in the space provided for comments, which follows each section. You may also want to comment on other things you notice on your walk-through. NB: this resource is intended to help you assess and improve your facility's age-friendliness. A Yes answer does not guarantee you have adequately addressed a particular issue
Construction
'Green' goes mainstream: environment-friendly retirement housing on the rise by Marilynn Larkin, MA
Until recently, green building was often associated with the counterculture environmentalists of the 1960s and ’70s. No longer. Today, mainstream developers increasingly recognize that green communities benefit the environment, the health of residents and, yes, the bottom line. The annual market for green building in products and services is now about $7 billion, representing 37% growth from 2003 to 2004, according to the US Green Building Council (USGBC). This coalition of building industry leaders works to promote buildings that are “environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work.”
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Through a lender's eye: how financial institutions evaluate you by Dan Biron, BS
Active-aging organizations that do not have immediate capital plans should understand how their actions today can affect their borrowing ability months and years down the road. Executives who monitor the stew that is the credit profile, and the various financial ratios and other ingredients that go into it, should always keep an eye on the back burner.
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Financing your wellness initiative by John Rude, MS
In a perfect world, individuals, organizations and even primary care physicians would receive financial incentives for preventing ill health and chronic disease. The current reality is often just the opposite, however. Disease management remains the name of the game in the United States, as well as other countries.
Although we now have the research, tools and evidence-based programs to influence optimum health well into the eighth and ninth decades of life, many in the aging business struggle to fully embrace prevention and wellness. Why? A lack of financial resources is often the barrier, but other obstacles may preempt an initiative.
