Aug 4, 2023
Migette Kaup, Ph.D., is a Professor and Director of Interior Design in the College of Health and Human Sciences at Kansas State University. She also serves as the Coordinator of Aging Research and Graduate Studies for the K-State Center on Aging.
As a designer and gerontologist, her research is focused on aging and environmental relationships. She uses organisational culture and long-term care policy structures as a lens to understand place-type practices and to investigate progressive changes occurring in nursing homes.
I spoke to Migette in January 2023 via Zoom.
In this episode, we discover how Migette developed her career and research within the long-term care industry.
How a return to education helped develop a set of design toolkits
The importance of interiors in helping to establish patterns of behavior
How designing for an aging population can be integrated across multiple academic disciplines.
And why, the environment around us needs to be like medicine
More info about Migette
Migette
earned her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM)
School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Her dissertation, titled
"Patterns of Culture Change Households: A Graphic Ethnography
of Organizational and Environmental Fit," combines her major
area of study in aging and environment relationships with her minor
area, long-term care policy structures, to investigate progressive
changes occurring in nursing homes. Her educational background also
includes a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design and a Master of
Architecture in Environment & Behavior and Place Studies with an
emphasis in Gerontology from Kansas State University.
Migette is NCIDQ and EDAC certified and her professional design practice includes over nine years in architectural firms as well as seven years in private consulting to long-term care providers and design professionals. Her combined areas of applied research and practice over the past 35 years have focused on various aspects of senior housing and care including specialized dementia care and person-centered design strategies. Dr. Kaup is a member and Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, the Society for the Advancement of Gerontological Environments (SAGE) as well as the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC). She is a professional member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) and the International Interior Design Association (IIDA).
She currently teaches for the College of Health and Human Sciences and serves as the Director of the Interior Design Program. She is also a member of the gerontology faculty through the K-State Center on Aging where she is the Coordinator for Aging Research and Graduate Studies. Her current work at Kansas State University is focused on research in the areas of environments and aging, specifically skilled care settings. Migette is co-PI on the PEAK (Promoting Excellent Alternatives in Kansas nursing homes) 2.0 Program with the Kansas State University Center on Aging. PEAK 2.0 is a pay-for-performance program administered by the Kansas Department of Age and Disability to incent person-centered care (PCC) implementation in nursing homes across Kansas. Her work on long-term care settings and design has been published in both books and journals and she is a regular presenter at national conferences.
Links
Migette on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/migette-kaup-047140b/
The Centre for Health Design
https://www.healthdesign.org/experts/migette-l-kaup-phd-fidec-fgsa-iida-asid-edac
Interior Design at Kansas State
University
https://www.k-state.edu/academics/majors-programs/interior-design-degree/
How to be a kick-ass Interior
Designer.
Come and join us on the Interior Design BA(Hons) course at the
University of Plymouth in the UK.
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/ba-interior-design
Thanks to
Dave Clarke from @iamthehow (http://www.iamthehow.com) for production support and invaluable advice in the setting up of this Podcast.
Kay Hanson (https://www.instagram.com/kay_v_hanson/) for her planning support and co-hosting for these and our educational podcasts for the University of Plymouth
Mark Frith (https://www.markfrith.uk/) for composing the music and all your support and advice along the way.
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Thanks for listening. Bye for now.