Where home is really . . . homey
October 24th, 2011
Thomas P. Montgomery’s professional future may have been decided when he was very young during visits to a nursing home where his grandmother lived. “They weren’t great places back then,” Montgomery recalls. As an adult, he would change all that. Montgomery, Vice President of GLMV Architecture, specializes in designing environments for the elderly that allow residents to make themselves completely at home. In the past, long-term residential facilities housed large groups of people in one space and were heavily centralized. “There was one huge dining room and one huge common room,” Montgomery recalls. “Residents often had to have a roommate. …
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