LIVING LONG-TERM CARE
SENIOR LIVING
20 committed principals
20 committed interior designers
35+ AIA Design for Aging awards, including the 10-Year Awards for Woodside Place and Sun City Yokohama
150+ industry citations for excellence
700+ clients over the last 35 years
600+ master plans for life plan communities
45,000+ skilled nursing rooms
40,000+ assisted living apartments
80,000+ independent living apartments
1,000+ completed projects, 90% of which integrate architecture and interior design services
Our practice is founded on the idea that design can have a direct and positive impact on people’s lives. We offer experienced, passionate and knowledgeable planners, architects, and interior designers who focus on the built environment and its ability to help people — from quality of lifestyle to quality of care.
HISTORY OF FIRM
Perkins Eastman is a leading architecture, urban design, and interior design firm offering programming, planning, design, and strategic planning services. Founded in 1981 in New York, the firm has grown to include 950 professionals across 24 interdisciplinary offices that collaborate across borders and disciplines to connect people and ideas. Through each of our 18 core practice areas, we design for a sustainable and resilient future, and to enhance the human experience through the built environment.
SENIOR LIVING EXPERIENCE
Our senior living practice is attuned to the needs and desires of aging people as well as the organizations that serve them. Principal level architects lead teams to develop strategic plans and designs that respond to these needs and desires. The senior living practice creates flexible and technologically advanced new spaces and upgrades existing buildings in phases that don’t disrupt resident services. Helping people get the care and lifestyle they deserve for their next chapter in life, following our Human by Design ethos, is the heart of our approach.
Our process is transparent and interactive, and maintains client involvement from executive leadership, and marketing, sales and operations teams to care staff. With more than 90% of our projects integrating architecture and interior design
services, we maintain creative tension throughout the project to achieve a cohesive design that meets our clients needs.
INNOVATIVE CARE SETTINGS
The concept of culture change challenges designers and providers to create more emotionally and cognitively supportive environments for older adults. Simple and thoughtful design features enable older, frailer adults to continue to be active members of the larger senior living community. A fundamental perceptual shift designing for capability, not disability opens new possibilities for senior living and blurs boundaries that may limit seniors’ quality of life.
Our dedicated team of senior living designers have been at the forefront of creating new residential Small House and Green House® models for longterm care, including assisted living, rehabilitative care, skilled care, and memory support for more than 30 years. Woodside Place, a smallscale residence for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia, opened its doors in 1991 and sparked an entirely new approach to memory support design. We believe that design has an enormous impact on how people with Alzheimer’s experience daily living and we are committed to pushing the boundaries to reconnect older adults to the fabric of our communities in meaningful, supportive ways.
We want every resident to be viewed as a human, and not an object in need of care.
LES STRECH
Thrive Senior Living
