Senior living furniture serves a special purpose. Residents in senior living communities often have special health and medical needs. The furniture in senior living communities must be comfortable and easily accessible for residents with health conditions and restrictions. During the transition from home to a senior community, residents may have a difficult time adjusting. This consideration makes choosing the perfect senior living furniture a unique priority, as we want to help make the transition as seamless as possible.

Stock furniture may or may not fulfill the special needs of your residents. At Northland, we make it easy to adapt and design senior living furniture to fit your accessibility and design requirements. We offer senior living collections that can be purchased as designed or customized for your needs. Whether you decide to alter an existing collection to meet your needs or work with our team of designers to create a fully custom collection specific to your brand, Northland helps meet your special purpose with senior living furniture.

Senior Living Furniture Collections

Northland has worked diligently to create senior living furniture collections that appeal to a broad spectrum of resident needs and preferences. All of our collections highlight accessibility standards and offer straightforward, simple design. Our furniture collections include:

• Monticello Collection
• Northfield Collection
• Tucson Collection
• Shasta Collection

Our pre-designed senior living community furniture collections are fully customizable to meet the requirements of your community. Don’t like exactly what you see? Prefer a different finish or hardware? Northland can alter pre-designed collections to accommodate the specific needs of your residents.

Custom and Customizable

At Northland, we make it easy to create a senior living furniture collection all your own. All senior living community furniture shares many similar attributes, but when design and accessibility matter, we’re here to serve your personal preferences.

For custom and customizable senior living furniture that serves the needs of your residents and staff, contact Northland. We specialize in create furniture to appeal to the needs and tastes of your eclectic group of residents.

Not all senior living furniture manufacturers were created equal. The best senior living furniture manufacturers place a high emphasis on quality, which makes them stand out from the pack. Quality senior living furniture is essential in this specific type of setting and for the residents and staff that use it everyday.

Quality Senior Living Furniture Manufacturers

In choosing senior living furniture manufacturers, it’s important to know what effort they put into maintaining and controlling quality. Senior living furniture needs to meet the highest standard of quality in order to properly and comfortably serve residents and staff.

Northland Furniture Company follows a strict quality control process to ensure each piece of senior living furniture is checked and approved before it’s packed on a truck. Senior living furniture is packed in the truck with soft, damage-resistant materials in order to maintain the same quality during transport as it was leaving our facility.

Accessibility and Quality Standards

For senior living furniture manufacturers, quality and accessibility go hand in hand. Northland incorporates special usability and safety features to enhance the quality and accessibility of the senior living furniture we produce, including:

• Rounded corners instead of sharp edge, reducing bumps and bruises
• Durable finishes for scratch resistance
• All casework is made using melamine with high pressure laminate for improved hygienic qualities
• Convenient furniture heights for those with limited range of motion
• Wheelchair accessible tables and desks
• Vented case backs for enhanced airflow
• Optional casters that allow furniture to be moved

Senior living furniture manufacturers that invest in quality control are able to product collections that are built to last and support the highest standard of quality. At Northland, we put a special emphasis on quality on our senior living furniture pieces and collections. With quality comes durability and longevity. Northland stands behind every piece of senior living furniture we sell with a 10 year warranty.

Choose senior living furniture manufacturers that put an emphasis on quality and stand behind their furniture. Contact Northland Furniture Company for more information about high-quality senior living furniture.

When it comes to senior living communities, they are often broken into levels of care. This not only includes programs tailored to each care level, but in many circumstances different living areas. For example, residents that call independent living communities home don’t require the same level of care of types of furniture as those living in assisted living or memory care units. Memory care furniture tends to be more rounded and easier for residents to navigate than standard senior living furniture.

It’s important to know the differences between senior living and memory care furniture when building a new community or remodeling an existing one. While with all senior living furniture certain features must be included, there are slight differences to the pieces that dwell in the memory care unit.

Considerations When Choosing Memory Care Furniture

When it comes to residents with memory issues like Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, there are certain factors to consider when choosing memory care furniture as opposed to standard senior living furniture, including:

• Color of memory care furniture can help keep residents calm and have more of an impact than in independent or assisted living environments. Pastels and muted colors are good, but don’t choose something too washed out, as it can look it’s impact.
• Contrast helps memory care residents differentiate between surfaces and navigate their environments more easily
• Furniture with hidden access for caregivers allows for enhanced care of residents with memory issues
• Furniture should be soft and comfortable with solid colors
• Consider that some residents may have incontinence issues, which requires fabrics that are easy to clean
• Position furniture to encourage engagement, rather than just placing it in front of a television
• Memory care furniture should feature rounded corners for easy accessibility that prevents injury

One of the main differences between senior living and memory care furniture comes in the color selection. It’s important to choose memory care furniture that makes it easy for residents to navigate and doesn’t impede them or could easily cause injury.

Northland Furniture Company manufactures senior living, assisted living and memory care furniture for communities of every care level. Contact Northland for more information about designing furniture specific to memory care. We take the level of consideration necessary to create furniture that helps, not hinders, residents.

When you first think of nursing home and senior living furniture, a warm and inviting atmosphere may not instinctually be the first thing that comes to mind. In the past, senior living furniture has brought to mind a sterile and cold environment more similar to a hospital than tasteful apartments for seniors to live and thrive. Times have changed and senior living furniture needs to encompass both functionality and comfort.

From Sterile to Stylish

Senior living furniture can tend to have a sterile feel. Walking into many senior living communities often feels like walking into a health care center. Assisted living and nursing homes do serve a medical purpose and provide residents and their families the peace of mind associated with easy access to health care.

While the proximity of medical care is an important draw to senior living, an equally important factor in choosing a community for your loved one’s quality of life and comfort. Choosing senior living furniture that makes residents feel at home is essential for the transition to an assisted living community.

Contemporary Senior Living Furniture

• Work with a furniture manufacturer with an eye for design
• A designer familiar with senior living can help you achieve a comfortable and stylish furniture scheme to meet the needs of today’s seniors
• Moving from sterile looking furniture to something more contemporary will attract potential residents and their families looking for a homelike atmosphere
• Customizing furniture can incorporate function and fashion
• Just because furniture for assisted living communities needs to be accessible doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice on design
• Senior living furniture trends follow a more hospitality and resort feel than sterile, hospital-like furniture of the past

Move your senior living community from a sterile environment to a warm and inviting space that residents and their families will be pleased to spend quality time together. Senior living communities can marry function, style and comfort with contemporary furniture that’s been custom designed to meet the needs of today’s seniors.

In order to give you another perspective on the types of assisted living furniture available from Northland Furniture, we turn the spotlight on our Tucson Collection. While Northland specializes in custom designed assisted living furniture, we have four collections available. In the past we have highlighted the specifications of the Monticello and Shasta collections. This month, we take a deeper look at the Tucson Collection.

About the Tucson Collection

The Tucson Collection is both practical and enduring. We designed and constructed the Tucson Collection to be easy to clean and low maintenance assisted living furniture. With crisp lines and just the right amount of detail, the Tucson Collection has become a reliable option for assisted living furniture.

Assisted Living Furniture Features

• Two heights of trimmed-panel headboards for twin beds- 54” and 23.75”
• Trimmed-panel footboard for twin beds
• Three styles of bedside tables – Three drawer, two drawer or one drawer with a swinging door, available in left or right swing
• Two styles of chests – Three drawer or four
• Three different wardrobes available – One door, two door or two door with two drawers below
• Corner table

The contoured crown and base moldings provide elegance and refinement in this practical and enduring collection. The simple design allows the assisted living furniture to blend seamlessly with the personal belongings residents bring with them. From picture frames filled with the faces of their grandchildren to the loveseat the once occupied the living room in their home, the light and durable finish of the Tucson Collection blends with the environment perfectly.

Safety and comfort are the foundation of our assisted living furniture at Northland. The Tucson Collection is no different. The Tucson Collection incorporates many special usability and safety features as well as offering accessibility in attractive finishes.

Contact Northland Furniture Company for more information about the senior living furniture collections we offer like the Tucson Collection. In addition to pre-designed collections, we also offer custom assisted living furniture designed and constructed to your specific needs.

Choosing the right assisted living furniture manufacturers takes a lot of research and consideration. You’re not designing a temporary space where visitors will come, stay for a couple nights and leave. This is a new home for seniors and understanding the sensitivity of this time of transition is important for assisted living furniture manufacturers.

Requirements for Assisted Living Furniture Manufacturers

Assisted living furniture manufacturers understand the requirements for seniors and their living environments. Assisted living furniture needs to be:

• Designed for durability
• Comfortable
• Easily accessible for those with limited mobility
• Crafted with beautiful design to be inviting to residents and their guests
• Easy to integrate with medical supplies and equipment

It’s essential for assisted living furniture manufacturers to understand both seniors and their health care needs. Furniture crafted for healthcare environments needs to meet higher standards that those pieces found in hospitality or typical residential settings. Accessibility is a cornerstone of furniture for healthcare and senior living applications.

Custom or Collection?

One of the most important factors to consider when choosing assisted living furniture manufacturers is whether you want custom furniture, or something from a predesigned collection. A contributing factor to this choice is time. Do you have the time to wait for custom assisted living furniture or is time of the essence and a collection better suites your needs?

Northland Furniture Company offers customers the option of choosing from our impressive senior living collections or customizing your own furniture. Having the option of customization is an important factor to consider when choosing assisted living furniture manufacturers. Our designers will work with you and the needs of your residents to create the best assisted living furniture possible for your communities.

Both our collections and custom furniture incorporate the specific needs of seniors. From rounded corners aimed at reducing bumps and bruises to tables and chairs that can accommodate wheelchair access, Northland builds furniture specially crafted for seniors and assisted living communities.

When choosing assisted living furniture manufacturers, consider Northland Furniture Company. Contact us for more information about our senior living collections and custom furniture options.