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Abe's Garden at Park Manor

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Abe’s Garden seeks to transform the full continuum of care for those affected by Alzheimer's and dementia throughout the United States, by providing an unprecedented level of care and a comprehensive array of services for individuals currently suffering from these diseases. Equally important, it will be a site of research and training, in full collaboration with the Vanderbilt Center for the Quality Aging and the Vanderbilt Medical Center, setting a new standard for future programs and facilities seeking to care for our nation’s rapidly expanding senior population.  

Abe’s Garden will be a best-practice, aging-in-place, demonstration facility designed to provide a caring, resident focused experience. A series of richly designed exterior gardens provide a safe and secure environment for residents to enjoy at their leisure.  The campus will be arranged in “neighborhoods,” each with their own unique characteristics designed to provide a variety of environments for residents and their families. Each neighborhood features 12 single bedrooms with a common kitchen, dining room, spa and living areas. Each of these neighborhoods will be connected by a variety of interstitial spaces that provide another series of options and services for socializing, creative activity and connection to the exterior gardens.

Abe’s Garden will be a model lab for continued development of best-practices for care of people with dementia, for the education and support of families and for the training and support of staff.  Abe’s Garden will be a model of care that may be replicated throughout the country.

MZA's design team for Abe's Garden included: Perkins Eastman, Interior Design; Hawkins Partners Inc., Landscape Architecture; Genesis Engineering Group, M,P&E Engineering; EMC Structural Enigneers; Barge Cauthen, Civil Engineering.

Photos by Nick McGinn at McGinn Photography

 

  • Client: Abe's Garden
  • Location: Nashville, TN
  • Year: 2015
  • Online: abesgarden.org/index.html
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