How we can prepare our buildings for an aging population | Nadim Adi | TEDxTexasStateUniversity

Dr. Adi unveils innovative design solutions for an aging society. With the global population rapidly aging, we face critical challenges in creating safer healing environments, especially for the elderly and those with conditions like dementia. He pioneers changes in hospital design to enhance resilience and improve living standards for our aging population. Dr. Adi is an assistant professor at Texas State University. He completed his doctoral studies in the field of virtual reality and obtained a master’s in architecture from the UK. Combining these two fields, he developed a passion to understand and test new buildings and building materials using virtual reality. He studies how people respond to different types of built environments using various virtual platforms as a medium. He has worked in several universities around the globe, in the fields of high-rise wood buildings, hospital design, dementia and elderly friendly design, and interactive architecture. His research has several potential inter-disciplinary applications involving health, education, and ergonomics. His work on dementia friendly hospital design resulted in changes to the Canadian building code and several publications and talks in various events globally. He is currently a key member of the Researcher Mental Health Observatory (ReMo COST Action) to change the approach to mental health globally. He is also a member of The Alliance of Researchers in Aging (ARIA), a group of Texas State researchers dedicated to aging and life course research. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx