Abstract:
This project focuses on the interior design of a local retirement home in Muncie, Indiana. With the introduction of the A.D.A. (Americans with Disabilities Act), many public access areas have been changed to include those with disabilities. This act also helped professionals in design to realize that people with disabilities have special needs once inside a space, and that all design is not functional to all people. This is especially true when analyzing the needs of the elderly.After observing multiple nursing homes around town and in m y hometown, I realized that many places do not take into consideration these needs. Thus I decided to focus on one particular nursing home in Muncie, the Community Care Center. Here is a facility that I felt needed some improvements just to make the residents feel more at home. The intent of this project is to offer suggestions to the director of the facility, and hopefully to educate him on some interior design choices to make the facility more pleasant to the residents, employees and to the guests.
