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Join us Friday, May 12th for a LIVE webinar, featuring Eunice Noell-Waggoner, President, Center of Design for an Aging Society and Laurie Emery, Healthcare Marketing Manager of Visa Lighting. They will review current research on Circadian lighting for Senior Living. Including a discussion of the impact of aging on the eye and the challenges this presents for lighting designers. Topics of discussions will include circadian lighting in the elderly and lighting designs to accommodate the aging eye
About the Speaker:
Eunice Noell-Waggoner, President, Center of Design for an Aging Society.
The first half of Eunice’s professional career involved interior and lighting design for public buildings and commercial spaces. The second half of her career has been focused on addressing the needs of older adults, especially focused on lighting for aging vision and health, through the Center of Design for an Aging Society, a not-for-profit organization she founded. She was the founding Chair of the Illuminating Engineering Society’s (IES) Lighting for Older Adults and the Low Vision Population Committee. She continues to serve on the IES Committee contributing to the update of ANSI/IES RP-28-20 Lighting and the Visual Environment for Older Adults and the
Visually. As described in “Lighting in Nursing Homes – the Unmet Need”, her presentation to the CIE 2nd Expert Symposium on Lighting and Health September 2006, lighting has been a lifelong concern of hers, one that she can relate to after having experienced circadian disruption as a college student due to geographical relocation and environmental conditions. Circadian disruption, due to the lack of high light levels during the day and too much light and noise at night, contribute to fragmented sleep and behavior problems. In 2017 she stimulated the formation of collaborative research teams to study the impact of LED light and daylight to address circadian disruption in memory care and nursing home residents. The first research project included Brown University School of Public Health Long-Term Care Quality and Innovation Center, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Center of Design for an Aging Society, and the ACC Care Center in Sacrament CA. The findings have been published on the Department of Energy’s website and in Seniors Housing and Care Journal 2020.
Laurie Emery
Healthcare Marketing Manager at Visa Lighting
As Healthcare Market Development Manager for Visa Lighting, Laurie supports specifiers through training for lighting solutions that enhance healthcare applications and improve patient wellbeing. Laurie is a former lighting designer having many years of experience working alongside architects, engineers and interior designers on numerous interior and exterior projects for commercial, educational, retail, hospitality, senior living, and healthcare projects.
After pursuing a profession in architecture and electrical design, Laurie’s discovery of her passion for lighting lead her to further pursue her training in Lighting Design through educational opportunities with the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), and through her career choices, allowing her to grow as a lighting design professional. She is LC Certified and has served in leadership roles at the Section level of the IES in Toledo, and Cincinnati, OH, and Greensboro, NC. She continues to engage her professional lighting design background at Visa Lighting through continual research of modern lighting technology and design trends in the healthcare market. This knowledge allows her to engage with design professionals to promote evidence based design that encourages healing in healthcare environments.