Nursing Home Design

Melinda E. Rakowski

Nursing homes are designed to serve patients who require preventive, therapeutic, and rehabilitative nursing care services for non-acute, long-term conditions. Usually residents are elderly and frail, but not bedridden, although many will require canes, walkers, or wheelchairs to help them get around. Patient stays are on the whole relatively long, […]

The Cost Of Living Longer

Melinda E. Rakowski

Every day, we see clients for whom long-term care is the elephant in the room. They feel they can’t afford the costs, but they also feel they can’t afford not to have it either. So their solution is to pretend they don’t see the “elephant” and try to ignore the […]

Booming Green Building Market Continues to Grow

Melinda E. Rakowski

Make no mistake: the “green building” market is not only here to stay, but it’s also the wave of the future. In just the next five years, the market for buildings that incorporate alternative energy and conservation techniques will increase some $10-20 billion dollars. Yet the green building market only […]

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