By Stephanie Taylor
TUSCALOOSA | Veterans who require long-term care at the Tuscaloosa Veterans Affairs Medical Center will have soon have a more comfortable alternative to a traditional, institutional hospital. AC =
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The center will spend $19 million to modernize the facility’s Building 61 and to build cottages designed like private homes. Each of 12 cottages will have 10 bedrooms centered around a living room and a kitchen to promote sociability among residents. Each cottage will be 10,000 square feet.
‘The cottages provide an environment where residents, including young veterans or service members who are recuperating from the effects of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom,can receive assistance with activities of daily living and clinical care, without the assistance and care becoming the focus of their existence,’ medical center director Alan J. Tyler stated in a release about the project.
Research has shown that placing 10 residents in a home setting has helped reduce depression and anxiety and improved mobility and independence among patients, medical center spokesman Damon Stevenson said.
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