Senior living interior design is evolving. The median age of senior housing residents is now 87 and is increasing by .8 every year. As a result, assisted living and independent living residents are increasingly frail and have more acute conditions.

As assisted living residents are increasing in both age and acuity levels of conditions, wear & tear to your assisted living or memory care community can happen at a faster rate. This can lead to increased annual cost of replacing furniture and a less than stellar visual appeal that may turn away new residents.

In November of 2013, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled “The Hospital Room of the Future”. This article provided a look from the Mayo Clinic into a future state of how hospital rooms could be improved. One of the biggest drivers of this is the reduction of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs).