Diana Anderson, M.D., M.Arch., Assistant Professor of Neurology at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, has received a one-year, $48,902 Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking grant from the Greenwall Foundation for her project “Improving Long-Term Care Facility Design through Bioethical Peer Review.”
Anderson’s past research has shown that the built space of healthcare environments can function as a healthcare intervention, achieving medicine-like effects that can profoundly affect persons living in long-term care. “However, there is a lack of medical oversight, existing human subject research protections, standards of architectural practice, or other governing protective mechanisms related to the built space of LTC facilities,” she says…
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