Using large language models to support resident-centered decision-making about transfers from long-term care to hospital
When a person living in long-term care (LTC) becomes unwell, transfer to a hospital can provide rapid access to effective treatments. However, if the person has a short time to live transfer to hospital may result in a medicalized death instead of the peaceful, comfort-focused end-of-life experience that most people desire. Daniel’s project will utilize…
Read More“More to the design than just architecture”: Practices, philosophies, and architectures of care, 1960-1995
The architectures of long-term and palliative care have resisted related typologies, like hospitals, in the same way that the hospice philosophy resists the medical desire to cure. Fiona’s dissertation explores what care, as an evolving concept, has looked like to architects in North America and the UK since the 1960’s. It considers how architecture has…
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