With increased competition, changing demographics and growing senior expectations, providers in all segments of senior housing and healthcare are being challenged by the industry to improve environments to reflect the changing philosophy of care.

While the 50's and 60's brought institutions for dying and the 80's and 90's brought convalescent homes, the future will demand the creation of holistic environments. Providers who will see greatest success will be those that meet each resident's total need - mind, body and spirit.

In this Alzheimer's environment, residents enjoy

community interractions at the village town square.

Aging is not an end, but rather a continuation of our lives.

While residents may wear and weaken, their spirits remain alive - responsive to the world around them. As architects, we recognize the power of our designs to enrich the lives of others. As such, we subscribe to the philosophy of living architecture. In this, we design more than institutions for the dying. We create holistic environments for enriched living.

There is a competitive spirit that lives in the space where strategies meet execution and creativity meets functionality.

It is this space where environments are born and quality of life defined. WAI Continuum embodies this spirt with a fresh approach to design. We look beyond what a facility is to what it can be instead - creating total solutions that address more than the physical design of care and service delivery.