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Course Description: CEU Events: Aging Well in a Purpose-Built Environment
This CEU explores how purpose-built environments can promote well-being and influence visual and sensory perception. An "age-friendly environment," as defined by the World Health Organization, supports healthy, active aging by enhancing seniors’ capabilities throughout their lives. With the global population aging—1.5 billion people will be 65 or older by 2050—designing spaces that respond to predictable neurocognitive and sensory changes is crucial. These changes are especially impactful for those with conditions like Alzheimer's and dementia. The built environment significantly influences functional independence and one’s sense of identity, both directly and indirectly.
Learning Objective 1 Research on cognitive aging, its stages, and the facts surrounding the dementia condition.
Learning Objective 2 Explore how emotional well-being later in life is associated with reduced independence, increased risk for dementia, and decreased ability to complete activities of daily living (ADLs).
Learning Objective 3 Examine cognitive health and environmental design interventions to reduce the increased risk to one’s physical safety as they age with dementia.
Learning Objective 4 Identify how interior finishes can support cognitive decline, visual acuity, mobility, and physical safety.