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cord-336467-w528t92h	Anderson, Diana C.	Nursing Home Design and COVID-19: Balancing Infection Control, Quality of Life, and Resilience	2020-10-31		.txt	text/plain	4089	211	48	Residential care settings for older people are known variously as "nursing homes," "long-term care facilities," or "care homes." 1 In general, it is argued that the design of many of these facilities do not adequately support quality of life for older people, 2,3 and now this is compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic which illustrates how they are ill-designed for infection control and the protection of older people who are most at risk in our society. Quality of life and care issues pertain to all aspects of the nursing home built environment (ie, from nursing home location and interaction with the community, down to building details, components, and technology), therefore we adopt a spatial framework spanning macro (overall urban setting), meso (neighborhoods and districts), and micro-scale level issues (site/building design). Examining any new approaches to nursing home design through the lens of quality of life and resilience will help reduce fragility of long-term care and protect against ongoing infectious threats such as influenza or COVID-19, or future pandemics.	./cache/cord-336467-w528t92h.txt	./txt/cord-336467-w528t92h.txt