Working with Tockwotton Home, a 30-bed assisted living center and 42-bed skilled nursing facility located in Providence, Rhode Island and Quality Partners of Rhode Island, BIF set out in Spring 2008 to build a neutral platform for experimentation where partners can test new ideas in a working elder care facility with guidance from a laboratory team of designers, clinicians and elder care experts.

In October 2008 the team reached an important milestone in bringing the NHoF lab to life with the completion of the first phase of project activity. This initial phase sought to create a detailed description of the current experience of nursing home and assisted-living residents that illuminates the day-to-day dynamics of elder life that also reveals areas of the experience most in need of redesign.

Full Story: Nursing Home of the Future Initiative Completes First Phase Source: Business Innovation Factory (BIF), October 31st, 2008 Author: Melissa Withers Added on November 6th, 2008 at 2:53 pm, by Matt Mikula