The New Wave of Foodservice Technology in Senior Care

Product Focus

Lounge and Guest Seating

Legacy Furniture Group has introduced the Celebrate Collection, its newest lounge and guest seating series. Celebrate’s warm wood, eased edges, and timeless design make it a beautiful addition to any public area. Each piece in the collection is individually handcrafted, ensuring the highest quality and value. All of Legacy’s furniture passes a 12-point inspection process.

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Elegant Casegoods

The Embassy Collection from Joerns Healthcare embodies cool sophistication with the use of crisp, clean lines throughout the body of the case. Sweeping curves in the base and rounded drawer fronts add to the look of the collection to suit almost any decor. Revere brushed nickel hardware is now standard for the Embassy Collection.

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Vinyl Flooring

EarthWerks™ has introduced a fresh new environment with high-quality Luxury Vinyl Tiles and Planks inspired by nature’s own woods, stones, and slates to create warm, home-style aesthetics. The flooring is easy to install and maintain, providing comfort and coziness with ease of function and movement.

Wood Classic Plank (pictured) is an elegant embossed design that captures the look and feel of real wood. It meets ASTM specifications for slip resistance, indentation, smoke, and fire. Many styles and colors are available, some featuring production with up to 50% recycled materials.

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Ecological Floorcovering

Marmoleum floorcoverings from Forbo are made from readily renewable natural ingredients, which give them naturally occurring antistatic and antimicrobial properties. The easy-to-clean floorcoverings aid in the reduction of indoor air pollutants. Marmoleum also features a water-based Topshield finish that reduces the need for initial maintenance and chemicals while providing lower cleaning costs and better long-term appearance retention.

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Resident Healthcare Beds

Völker Health Care Beds are often referred to as “healthcare beds in disguise.” The casters, siderails, motors, scissors mechanisms, and cranks are all hidden from sight. This enhances resident room appearance for a more homelike living environment and attracts residents by offering a more desirable image.

Völker now offers the innovative MIS—Micro-stimulation lying surface. Designed to enhance the pressure reduction capability of the mattress. Micro-stimulation is a new experience in comfort and protection of skin care integrity.

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Adjustable-Height Shampoo Bowl

Adjust-a-Sink by Accessible Systems is a shampoo bowl designed to provide a safer, more comfortable solution for hair care in facility salons. An easy-to-use foot pump allows the sink to be raised and lowered 12″ to better accommodate a resident’s physical limitations. The Adjust-a-Sink can be used with most wheelchairs, eliminating the need to transfer the resident from the wheelchair to the salon chair.

New features include a wider selection of bowl and laminate colors and smoother surfaces for cleanability. A 3-in-1 faucet combines the spray, faucet, and vacuum breaker into one fixture, along with new color-matched, durable powder-coated drain shrouds for a contemporary appearance.

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Carpet Collection

Think back to the days when Jimmy Hendrix, The Beatles, and The Doors ruled the Billboard charts and sentiments of “peace, love, and flower power” rang true in the hearts of Americans. These cultural influences come to life in Durkan Hospitality’s Chromistique carpet collection. These colorful, dynamic floor coverings bring a fresh perspective to any hospitality interior. Along with Chromistique’s print and CYP products for public spaces, custom patterns from the company’s Merit line offer a solution for guestrooms and corridors.

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Modular Carpet

InterfaceFLOR’s High Line collection offers a softer version of the clean look of a wooden floor. It is a plush-like, chunky cut-and-loop product suitable for senior living environments. The rich texture, created by multiple pile heights, gives way to a subtle linear pattern. This modular carpet is suitable for high-end interiors.

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Daylighting

Structures Unlimited, Inc., provides daylighting solutions through the use of large, structural skylights, swimming pool enclosures, and entire structures. Highly insulating up to R-20,

diffuse-light-transmitting panels eliminate glare and shadows, while reducing lighting and HVAC costs. Motorized opening panels are available. Manufactured in the USA to meet or exceed all local building codes. Potential LEED® credit contribution up to 19 points.

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Synthetic Putting Greens

Quality, low-maintenance synthetic putting greens and practice areas from TourGreens® let residents enjoy chipping and putting even if they can’t play a full course. TourGreens’ “golfscapes” include garden landscaping as well as undulations and contours built to strict PGA guidelines. A “water hazard” can take the form of a natural pond of a tranquil waterfall.

Golfers and non-golfers alike will enjoy TourGreens’ serene garden setting whether they are golfing, relaxing on comfortable seating, enjoying the company of friends, or just communing with nature.

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Senior Seating

American of Martinsville has expanded its senior seating line to incorporate more transitional seating for greater appeal to the upcoming baby boomer senior population. The 1020 chair features include proportions for easy access and egress, along with maintenance-friendly seat construction, which is artfully concealed in the tight seat design.

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Design Services Direct Supply’s

Eldercare Interiors is a team of professional designers and project consultants who can plan renovation or new construction from start to finish. Eldercare Interiors offers interior design services, kitchen and laundry design, product consultation, and other services exclusively for senior living environments.

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Customizable Furniture

Invacare Continuing Care Group has introduced the Somerset Line of furniture, featuring rich wood veneers and solids and a high-pressure laminate top. The line can be customized to fit any room by selecting from five toe-kick panel options and a wide variety of pull styles and finishes. The Somerset Line is available in flat or profiled molding drawer fronts.

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Healthcare Carpeting

The Provence Collection from Tandus, was designed primarily for healthcare markets. Available in five broadloom styles from Crossley (Fleur, Karira, Matelasse, Dahlia, Ornament) and four styles in Powerbond® from C&A (Celyn, Floris, Maylea, Laurus), Provence is a mix of traditional, transitional, and contemporary styling.

The combination of organic and botanical patterns with designer-selected colorways enhances healing and living environments from hospitals to long-term care facilities. Powerbond® products are backed by a 25-year, non-prorated warranty and feature non-flow–through, moisture-barrier backings; acoustic and thermal insulation; reduced risk of slip/fall injuries; and easy maintenance.

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Dining/Activity Chair

Kwalu’s Piazza dining and activity room chair combines functionality with contemporary style. The Piazza collection offers custom mix-and-match possibilities. Choose fabric colors, frame finishes, dimensions, etc.

Made of Kwalu’s virtually indestructible material with a bacteria-resistant frame, the Piazza chair provides design along with strength and durability, while eliminating costly downtime with low maintenance. The Piazza chair is backed by a 10-year warranty on construction and finish.

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Spa System

The Penner Cascade Premier Spa provides affordable elegance with a TV, DVD, and CD player. You design the colors to create a spa-like bathing atmosphere in your bathing area. The Premier cabinet provides convenient access to hidden controls, bathing liquids, and the quick-fill reservoir.

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Safety Glider

The new Thera-Glide Safety Glider from Optima Products, Inc., features Soft-Sense, the patented automatic lock that helps reduce falls by instantly and silently preventing gliding when entering and exiting the chair. Soft-Sense responds to each person’s unique size regardless of height or weight. It securely locks at the right point for the safest egress. Now anyone who can use a stationary chair can safely enjoy a glider rocker. The new Thera-Glide offers optinal adjustable seat depth and back angle. The new Decorative Metal Thera-Glide now comes in petite, regular, and large (24″ width) sizes. It can be upholstered in contract-grade leatherette, Crypton fabrics, or COM.

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Broadloom Carpeting

Lees Carpets’ Kensington Collection features stylish broadloom carpeting at affordable prices. Featuring three running line patterns named after London’s most notable locations (Chelsea, Hyde Park, and Pimlico), this collection also offers additional custom patterns for 100-yard minimums available in a palette of colorways ranging from deep neutrals to warm earth tones. The low-density construction and use of Lees’ Duracolor® makes the Kensington Collection ideal for high foot and wheeled traffic areas. The collection also features Unibond RE™ backing system, is CRI Green Label Plus certified, and produced in an ISO 14001-certified manufacturing facility.

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Vinyl Flooring

Gerflor, a leading manufacturer of vinyl flooring, has provided resilient flooring since 1937. Products like Mipolam and Taralay meet any resilient flooring need. Patented floor treatments like Protecsol and Sanosol reduce costs associated with cleaning and replacing floor coverings. Gerflor’s fast track interlocking tiles speed installation, reduce subfloor preparation, overlay existing floor coverings. Gerflor products are environmentally friendly and are strictly manufactured to the environmental ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 standards.

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Dining Seating

The D-2405 Transitional style chair is available with and without casters in a standard or custom finish. Claremont Seating has a large selection of traditional and contemporary dining chairs for the senior-living market. Claremont also offers wood stackers, club chairs, benches, and occasional seating. Dining table tops and bases, as well as accent tables in Queen Anne, Hepplewhite, Shaker, and Chippendale styles are also available.

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Adjustable Tables

Space Tables, Inc., offers adjustable fiberglass tables that accommodate wheelchairs and ensure proper positioning for all long-term care residents. Available in three sizes and a variety of colors, the U-shaped table is engineered to maximize outcomes in restorative feeding programs.

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Stand-Assist Lift

The Lumex® Easy Lift STS, from Graham-Field, is designed to provide quick, safe assistance to those who have trouble standing. Features include heavy-gauge steel construction with a white powder-coated finish; ergonomic foot-pedal base opening; a lower base height for maximum stability to fit under most beds; rubber base-coating to protect furniture and walls; adjustable knee pad unit; quick release removable foot platform; large, easy-grip handles for easy maneuvering; 24V DC motor for quiet, smooth operation; warning beep for low battery charge and weight capacity levels; easy-access emergency stop button; and included accessory storage bag for slings and charger; 400 lb. maximum weight capacity. One-year limited warranty.

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