RP-28, Lighting and the Visual Environment for Seniors and the Low Vision Population (No CEU)
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The IES offers a series of webinars that provide supplemental education to coincide with a recently revised or new IES Standard (Recommended Practice - RP, Technical Memorandum - TM, etc.). RP-28, Lighting and the Visual Environment for Seniors and the Low Vision Population is part of the IES Standards Webinars.
Description: RP-28-16 is intended to increase the designers’ understanding of age-related vision loss and the importance of their design decisions that could impact the safety and independence of this growing sector of the population. This webinar will provide a brief overview of some of the current research and design practices found in RP-28-16 that can help the aged and partially sighted maintain their quality of life.
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Eunice Diane Noell-Waggoner
Founder, Center of Design for an Aging Society
Eunice Noell-Waggoner spent the first half of her professional career as an interior and lighting designer for public buildings and commercial spaces. Along the way she became concerned about the environmental needs of the end users–the ultimate clients, especially older people. The second half of her career has been focused on addressing these needs through the Center of Design for an Aging Society, a not-for-profit organization she founded, which is dedicated to improving homes, public buildings, and public outdoor spaces to support dignity, independence, health and safety of our aging population.
Her current work through the Center of Design involves raising awareness within the design community through presentations, published papers, and working with national standard setting organizations, including the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), ASHRAE, Facilities Guidelines Institute (FGI), AIA Design for Aging Center’s Steering Committee, and the Low Vision Design Committee of the National Institute of Building Sciences, plus state and local agencies.
As the founding Chair of the Lighting for the Aged and Partially Sighted Committee of the IES, she directed the development of the first edition of RP-28 “Lighting and the Visual Environment for Senior Living”, which is now an ANSI Standard. She continues to serve on this committee.
Ms Noell-Waggoner coordinated the lighting design for two lighting research projects conducted by the Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Oregon Health and Science University, funded by the National Institute on Health. The research involved environmental light therapy for people living with Alzheimer’s disease.
She was the recipient of the 2013 Distinguished Service Award from the Illuminating Engineering Society.
Dr. Asha Hegde
Associate Professor of Interior Design and Lighting Design, Texas State University
Asha Hegde, Ph.D., LC Asha Hegde, is an Associate Professor of Interior Design and Lighting Design at Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. Besides research and teaching she conducts continuing education seminars to architects and interior designers on the topic of light and color across the nation. She has a BS in Interior Design from Florida State University and a MS and Ph.D., in Human Environmental Sciences with an emphasis in lighting from Oklahoma State University. She has over 25-refereed publications and invited presentations in the field of light and color. She is the incoming chair of the IES National Committee of ‘Lighting for Aging and Partially Sighted’.