Madyson, Palm Beach Gardens

Madyson, Palm Beach Gardens

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

YourLifeTM of Palm Beach Gardens exemplifies a ‘micro’ Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) concept which offers residents aging-in-place accommodations and a continuum of care. The complex combines a full service, four story Assisted Living Facility (ALF) and a two and three-story Memory Care Facility.

LEO A DALY designed the project with the look and feel of a luxury Independent Living Facility and also to encourage wellness, capability and cognitive abilities. With a focus on creating a welcoming space with appeal to multi-generational visitors, LEO A DALY created varied destination spaces within the facility. The beautiful high-end spaces encourage community interaction, engagement, and a sense of community; while supporting a healthy lifestyle for residents and staff. The architectural design, décor, paint colors and lighting all work together to create a calming environment while providing residents with cues to live independently.

At 234,000 SF, the project’s resort style amenities such as pool, lounge area, gym, restaurant style dining areas, private family dining areas, pub, ice cream shop, and community areas provide social spaces for family, visitors and residents. The buildings’ back-of-house connection enables shared support spaces such as a commercial kitchen and laundry services. This approach reduces costs in staffing, square footage, and construction. The exterior and interior of the facility is designed with a warm contemporary style intended to match the expected sophistication of the facility’s residents.

Client 

Olson Land Partners, LLC

At a glance

Designed with the look and feel of a luxury Independent
Living Facility and also to encourage wellness, capability
and cognitive abilities.

Features

The complex combines a full service, four story Assisted Living Facility (ALF) and a two and three-story Memory Care Facility.

Services

Architectural Design

Karl Baker

Karl Baker

Project Manager
West Palm Beach
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Karl Baker brings extensive experience with more than 20 years of past projects, with senior living communities, government buildings, civic projects, airport facilities and overall renovations. His sense of detail and passion is brought to every project implementing strong design solutions, facilitating and coordinating the planning, programming, design and construction of projects.

Having participated in over a million square feet of design and development, Karl’s experience in coordinating Senior Living details within the Dignity Driven Design approach is unmatched. His attention to detail always incorporates the needs of the residents while maintaining a hospitality approach.

Strong organizational skills mean Karl’s projects are well coordinated, technically correct and delivered on time. He utilizes a hands-on, detailed approach to providing quality projects with a focus on quality construction documents. His high standard of excellence helps clients reduce their risk, optimize their goals, and realize their project mission.

Designing for dignity in senior living

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Designing for dignity in senior living

Senior Living Practice Leader Mike Rodebaugh, AIA, explores the complex and meaningful craft of dignity-driven design

By Mike Rodebaugh, AIA

Whenever I’m asked for my “why” as a senior living designer, I begin with a story about my daughter, Arinn, and her great grandmother, GeGe.  Six years ago, when Arinn was six, my wife and I were in the process of helping GeGe move from the house where she lived for 30 years into a continuing care retirement community. A CCRC operates along a continuum of care, offering residents appropriate support through the aging process as their needs change –  from independent living to assisted living, skilled nursing and memory care.

When we asked GeGe how she picked her community, she said, “I want to live in a place that Arinn isn’t afraid to visit.”

GeGe’s statement cuts to the heart of what designers mean when we talk about dignity. Above everything else, seniors and their families want to be assured that their lives will retain that sense of completeness and connection to others that makes life precious.

As the leader of LEO A DALY’s senior living design practice, Dignity Driven Design is my “why.” That primary focus drives every decision we make in every project we do. We seek out clients who share our commitment to the holistic wellbeing of residents, and together we create environments that build community, welcome and engage residents and their loved ones, enable the right support for every stage of life, and nurture the health and wellbeing of staff.

Today on the LEO A DALY blog, I would like to tease out some of the big ideas behind Dignity Driven Design and offer a look at some exemplary projects from our portfolio. In the process, I hope to show the surprising complexity and richness of the senior living design – a typology that  sum of all these characteristics, formed into an environment specialized for the continuation of a productive, informed, and protected lifestyle, that makes senior living an exciting field of design.

Building community in a senior living environment means designing vibrant social spaces that set the stage for meaningful interactions.

Building community 

When people hear the term senior living, they often think “nursing home” and conjure the image of a drab, depressing place with a vague hospital smell. Although we no longer use that term, it’s that outdated association and depressing mental image that does the most damage to the senior living industry.  

My goal as a designer is to erase that stereotype by designing its polar opposite. Where nursing homes seem to be forgotten places, ours are memorable. Where nursing homes feel isolated, ours are socially vibrant. Where nursing homes feel frozen in time, ours are dynamic, full of active people living their best life. At the beginning of every project, I challenge my team to think of what we’re building not as a facility, but as a community. This is much more than a difference in terminology – it’s a whole mindset. 

community is the sum of the connections between the people who make it up. As architects, we weave environments that enable and enrich those connections. We think of our buildings not as assemblies of concrete and steel, but as a mutually supportive framework of interactions between residentsfamily, friendsstaff and the natural and built environment. Every space, material, view and amenity is arranged to animate the texture of community life.  

So much is done to avoid falls: a vertical lighting strip in a bedroom helps orient the resident on those midnight trips to the restroom; bold, clear floor paterns prevent visual confusion; in the the restroom, a walk-in shower avoids trips.

Adaptive hospitality 

Though there is an element of healthcare design in a senior living community – in skilled nursing and memory care spaces, for example – the heart of the design is hospitality. Like a hotel or resort, our primary intention is to create emotionally impactful experiences.  

Unlike hotels or resorts, however, senior living communities come with an added layer, which I call the magic trick. Beneath the immediate experience of the space, senior living environments are invisibly adapted to the sensory, safety, functional and wellness needs of seniors. The lighting, colors, fixtures and arrangement of spaces are tailored to enable independence and protect residents from injuryMaterial choices and air quality measures are carefully tuned to fight infectious disease. Every amenity employs universal design practices to improve accessibility regardless of mobility issues.  

Every design decision serves two purposes: to delight and engage residents in a vibrant lifestyle, and to provide the invisible scaffolding they need to enjoy it all safely.   

 

Senior living communities should be places for living. That means providing residents with the kinds of amenities that encourage an active lifestyle. Use it or lose it, right? 

Lifestyle of wellness 

A big part of the shift in mindset from “nursing home” to “community” has to do with the wellness benefit of living a full and active life. Physical movement, mental stimulation, and purpose-driven activities not only provide enjoyment, but lengthen the duration and quality of life and reduce the perception of impairment.  

Every amenity in a senior living community doubles as occupational therapy. The pools are sculpted with beach-style gradual entries and motorized lifts to aid the mobility-impaired and facilitate strength-building aquatic aerobics. Adaptive exercise equipment is provided to help seniors maintain their mobility with less strain on joints. And one of my favorite design moments: a community garden is built with wheelchair-accessible raised beds to encourage residents to literally “play in the dirt.” 

Employees are often forgotten in the conversation about senior living. This is a mistake; happy employees are critical to happy residents. Some useful concepts can be borrowed from the best corporate workplace design: well appointed breakrooms, exercise spaces, showers to encourage biking to work, and mothers’ rooms to enable dignity for working moms.

Caring for the caregivers 

Behind the scenes, Dignity Driven Design has a significant impact on the people who make the biggest impact on residents: the staff. Every senior living community is also a workplace, and as designers, we look for opportunities to improve the efficiency, performance and wellbeing of caregivers.  

Stress has a direct influence on morale and engagement of caregiversFor this reason, we put an added emphasis on workplace wellness in our design. In planning the community, we engage directly with front-line staff, seeking to understand their day-to-day tasks and find opportunities to make their work more efficient. To fight burnout and help employers appeal to changing generational preferences, we employ evidence-based design strategies to positively impact the health, lifestyle and mood of workers in this sometimes-difficult professional environment.  

Athe senior living industry experiences a surge in aging population and a shortfall in qualified, motivated applicants, the workplace element of design will only grow in importance. Dignity for residents depends on the recruitment and retention of caregivers who can escape burnout, work collaboratively with others, and participate in a mutually-supportive workplace culture. 

So how’s GeGe?

I’ll close with an update on our GeGe. Since she entered an independent living community, I’ve watched as she and Arinn have grown close. Arinn is 12 now, and GeGe is 92, but despite the 80-year age difference, they’ve developed a relationship that I know will be meaningful to Arinn long after GeGe is gone. When I think about quality of life, it’s this kind of relationship that I think about – a reason to get up in the morning, to take care of oneself, and engage with the world.  

A community environment focused on dignity, social connection and wellness is, I believe, to thank for  GeGe’s continuing vitality to this day. 

About the author

Mike Rodebaugh leads the our senior living market with a passion for dignity-driven design. Michael’s goal is to create inviting spaces that encourage multigenerational interactions between residents, visitors and staff. His awareness of the need to attract and retain staff informs strategies for employee well-being, efficiencies and use of technology.

Resort Style Senior Living in Boca Raton

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Resort Style Senior Living in Boca Raton

Toby and Leon Cooperman Sinai Residences East Campus sets trend for South Florida continuing care

Sinai Residence East Campus

After the original campus opened in 2016, the lifestyle glimpsed at the Toby and Leon Cooperman Sinai Residences in Boca Raton led to a waiting list. Soon, its visionary owners and developers commenced a second phase with LEO A DALY. Their goal was to elevate experiences and expand the campus. After five years, eight design concepts, numerous public outreach meetings and one global pandemic, the East Campus opened in May 2022.

To create the captivating East Campus, whose appeal is both functional and aesthetic, LEO A DALY led a design team that included architects, planners, engineers, landscape architects and contractors. The expansion adds a posh 220,000 SF of independent living and luxury amenities, and 30,000 feet of covered parking. Now completed, the East Campus achieves a forward-thinking model of senior living that forever extinguishes antiquated notions of how people should live in their later years.

Sixty percent of units were claimed two years in advance of completion, and by early October 2022, only five units remained available.

Continuing Care

As the driving force behind Sinai Residences, the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach envisioned a community with life-care essentials on site, including sundries, entertainment and 24-hour healthcare. The lifestyle they conceived accounted for wellness circumstances residents may encounter as they age. The result is a campus complete with assisted living, skilled nursing, memory care and independent living — a continuing-care experience where residents can age gracefully in their community.

 

Resort-Style Senior Living

The addition of the East Campus elevates experiences through LEO A DALY’s Dignity-driven Design model, which draws heavily on its experience in Hospitality. It added 111 apartments that range in size from 900 SF to 3,200 SF, two five-star dining venues, a solarium, resort-style pool, movie theater, board room and ballroom. Each apartment enjoys a unique footprint; there are no cookie-cutter layouts. And each apartment is programmed thoughtfully. Accessibility features are woven into the architectural fabric.

Building systems such as HVAC are designed for comfort, efficiency and maintainability. Flexible routing of infrastructure allows each apartment to be customized. Meanwhile, the exterior evokes a Mediterranean village whose soft-beige palette draws dimensionality from its terracotta accents and subtle white flourishes.

 

The mid-rise community blends with the adjacent neighborhood in part by nesting its four stories in an illusory three-story façade. Siting optimizes diurnal sun cycles with amenity-rich courtyards to the east and west and an L-shaped, resort-style pool to the north. An indoor-outdoor bar and private cabanas help create a luxury focal point that also serves multiple social functions.

On any morning, you may find residents participating in water aerobics, stretching from their balconies overlooking the pool, or swimming laps. Pool accessibility for the mobility impaired was a design parameter — not a postscript. And a sculpted structure over a portion of the pool provides shade for sensitive skin and multigenerational appeal.

Walking paths wind through the courtyards’ manicured lawns and palm trees. Bursts of colorful flora add visual interest to its verdant landscaping. Short retaining walls double as spots for sitting and socializing.

One courtyard occupies space over a parking garage, which offers valet parking and 20 spaces dedicated to electric vehicles. Inside the garage is a backup generator to power the campus should need arise, and its flue is integrated into a courtyard chimney — turning function into feature.

 

Five-Star Dining

Residents and their guests experience elegance to the nines and gourmet fare at one of the Sinai Residences’ two new dining venues inside the East Campus. Inspired dining results from inspired design. Each venue is powered by state-of-the-art commercial kitchens. The freshest seasonal ingredients are prepared according to rotating menus.

  • The Dining Room is the more formal venue. Its elegant environs include a pool-facing solarium, which acts as an instrument of enchanting interplay between light and shadow.
  • The Bistro café offers casual nibbles and complete meals with al fresco dining and poolside bar service.

 

Dignity Driven Design

By design, the Toby and Leon Cooperman Sinai Residences East Campus offers superlative living for active adults through a focus on wellness, health services and a wide variety of activities. It is highly secure, with gated access, and highly resilient through smart civil design for stormwater runoff and with infrastructure for redundant power. The progressive senior living community in Boca Raton welcomes people of all faiths, beliefs and cultures.

Mike RodebaughAbout the author

Michael Rodebaugh leads senior living design for LEO A DALY. His passion is to design spaces that encourage multigenerational interactions between residents, visitors and staff. His experience in Hospitality helps him navigate the nuance of details that foster comfort, orientation and a sense of dignity. He applies his knowledge to the full continuum of care environments as he works with clients in independent living, assisted living and memory care communities, and their specialized requirements.

 

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About the author

Juli Edwards leads business development in our West Palm Beach studio. Her many strengths include deep industry knowledge and experiencedestablished strategic relationships and an innovative, high-energy leadership style. She is an active member of the Society for Marketing Professionals South Florida Chapter, for which she currently serves as president.

 

 

Sinai Residences

Sinai Residences

Boca Raton, Florida

The Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County selected LEO A DALY to design, develop and provide construction support for an expansion of the existing Sinai Residences in Boca Raton. The expansion encompasses a four-story independent living building with 111 luxury apartments ranging from 800 to 2,400 SF. Additionally, the building includes two dining venues, a multi-purpose activity space, 225-seat ballroom, dedicated movie theater and board room. The expansion design takes advantage of the south Florida environment, incorporating a resort-style pool and activity area along with elevated courtyard spaces.

The expansion also accommodates residents’ needs with additional parking below the independent living building to house a one-to-one unit-to-parking ratio. The Sinai Residences expansion and addition reflects the design style of the existing buildings, complementing the existing campus design while incorporating direct connections to nature and a variety of outdoor amenity spaces.

Client 

Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County

At a glance

Expansion including new independent living building with 111 luxury apartments

Features

Two dining venues, dedicated movie theater, multi-purpose ballroom, 80-space parking garage and resort-style aquatic center

Services

Architectural design

Interior design integration

Juli A. Edwards

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Juli A. Edwards

Director of Business Development
West Palm Beach
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Juli Edwards is director of business development in our West Palm Beach studio. She is responsible for establishing, implementing and maintaining successful business development strategies for the studio’s multi-market planning, architecture, engineering and interior design practice.

Juli’s multitude of strengths includes deep industry experience, established strategic relationships and an innovative, high-energy leadership style. She is an active member of the Society for Marketing Professionals South Florida Chapter, of which she is president elect.

LEO A DALY introduces public-setting furniture inspired by hospitality and healthcare design

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LEO A DALY introduces public-setting furniture inspired by hospitality and healthcare design

The Leo Collection of wait-seating furniture blends hospitality styling and healthcare durability for use in public environments

International design leader LEO A DALY has partnered with IOA Furniture to create a versatile furniture collection at once elegant, resilient, adaptable and appealing. Made in North Carolina, each customizable table, chair and bench in the Leo Collection draws on decades of interior design experience for a variety of clients. It is well suited for high-volume public environments.

“Cleanable and easy-to-maintain furniture can sometimes make public environments feel cold and institutional, and we wanted to develop furnishings that retain the same functionality while adding elegance and style,” said Senior Interior Designer Sabrina Ahern. “That was really the genesis of the Leo Collection.”

Over the years, a gradual convergence has blurred the lines between furniture for spaces like luxury hotel lobbies and healthcare waiting areas. On the one hand, hospitality environments combine sleek lines, contemporary colorways and a wide range of patterns and fabrics. On the other hand, healthcare environments sometimes require bariatric options, moisture barriers and bleach cleanability. The nexus of those two is where the Leo Collection finds its home.

Chairs feature precision depth and posture, and armrest angles aid in mobility. Each piece is welded by hand and features adjustable glides to adapt to uneven surfaces. With comfortable proportions based on accurate human scaling, the Leo Collection combines artisan construction with the robustness to stand up to the rigors of daily usage, making it ideal for high-volume lobbies, waiting areas and other public environments.

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Addressing the staffing crisis by design

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Addressing the staffing crisis by design

In Environments for Aging, Michael Rodebaugh, AIA, shares how senior living providers can better recruit and retain staff in the face of the coming demographic tsunami

Excerpted from the article in Environments for Aging by Michael Rodebaugh, AIA: 

The senior living industry is facing a staffing crisis. Over the next decade, a surge in the aging population will create unprecedented demand for residential care. Meanwhile, many providers report difficulty attracting new employees and retaining those they have.

According to OnShift, a long-term care labor-management company, the senior-care profession will need to add 2.3 million new workers by 2030. Making up for the shortfall will require senior living providers to rethink how they appeal to a new generation of employees.

Millennial and gen-z workers are drawn to careers that offer a strong sense of purpose and the opportunity to work collaboratively with others. They are creative and tech-savvy, with a keen appreciation for how smart technology can be used to automate and improve. They are goal-oriented, which means they become highly engaged when their efforts and creativity are rewarded, tend to live more active lifestyles, and place a high premium on health and wellness.

Creating a company culture that supports the needs of employees starts with design. A thoughtfully designed community can help attach employees to a sense of purpose and strengthen collaboration, using technology and design thinking to make the job less stressful and more rewarding. An employee-friendly workplace produces healthier workers who view their job as meaningful, treat their coworkers as teammates, and view their employers as supportive partners in their own future.

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Virtual reality gives clients true, real-time feel for their facilities

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Virtual reality gives clients true, real-time feel for their facilities

by Stephen Held, Chief Information Officer
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If you have been a decision maker on a ground-up or renovation project, you know that to this point, no renderings or models – traditional or digital – can truly show you how the space will look, feel and function.

That is, until virtual reality (VR) entered the architecture and engineering industry.

“Instead of looking at still images, clients experience their space,” said Linn Bjornrud, senior architect and building information modeling manager. “We can use VR to validate clients’ expectations. We’re using it as a translation tool.”

VR expedites the project lifecycle, cuts costs

Nathan Novak, our VR advocate, said there are multiple ways we’re using VR.

“We use it during the design process to better visualize a model,” he said. “We can use it during QA/QC to answer whether there’s enough clearance around an object. We use it in collaboration with the client. We can put a nurse in a nurse’s station to see if he or she will have the right sight lines. Some of the technology is even smart enough to know the height of the user, so we can have her sit in a chair behind the nurse’s station in VR and she is at the correct height.”

To that end, we are able to make real-time design changes to digital models as clients walk through their projects and tell us what’s working and what isn’t. We then tweak the design, have the client take another look, and continue this iterative process until we deliver on the client’s outcomes.

These processes go a long way toward cutting down on major design changes late in the project – in turn, reducing costs and expediting the entire construction process.

But even before the client experiences a virtual model, VR is helping our staff get design closer to final.

“What’s most interesting is on the internal side,” Bjornrud said. “We’ll model a space and jump right into a test. ‘Do I have a view from point A to point B? How long does it take me to get from here to there? How is the wayfinding?’ We’re making corrections before the model gets to the client. There are interesting things we can confirm now that we couldn’t before. And VR isn’t replacing any existing tools. This is an entirely new design tool that will no doubt impact the solutions we develop.”

Simple, Fast and Benefits are Immediately Clear

Simplicity and speed have been key in the adoption of VR both across our firm and by our clients. There are multiple ways to launch into an immersive VR experience, but when accessing a model directly from Revit – building information modeling software – we are only two clicks and two minutes from a virtual walk-through, Bjornrud said.

For all its benefits, virtual reality is daunting for some people. Novak said it can be a challenge to get people to put on the VR headset the first time, but as soon as they do, the hesitation is gone and they see its advantages right away.

In the end, we are sold on VR as a technology that will enhance our architectural and engineering deliverables. We also see the future of this technology and are positioning to allow our clients to experience their space interactively with us, virtually, from anywhere in the world. These are some of the most exciting possibilities turning into reality.

Stephen HeldAbout the author

As chief information officer, Stephen Held directs a team of 24 IT professionals in the continual maintenance, updating and adoption of technology in 30 offices and five countries. In more than a decade with the firm, he has championed an aggressive strategy of innovation for the sake of competitive advantage.

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