Arjo believe that empowering movement within healthcare environments is essential to quality care. As leading experts in this field, their mission is to support people with the right environment, skills and equipment for empowering movement.

For over 60 years they have been working in close collaboration with healthcare professionals, giving them a unique understanding for everyday challenges. Arjo's products and solutions ensure ergonomic patient handling, hygiene, disinfection, diagnostics, and the effective prevention of pressure injuries and venous thromboembolism – and help professionals across care environments to provide good, safe and dignified care.

Arjo have a long history of collaborating closely with architects, nursing home executives, safe patient handling experts, residents and relatives. Planning a care facility is about planning for the future, and will impact both the efficiency and quality of care and the work environment for the caregiver.

Their experience has taught them that to create efficient care facilities and to obtain a good working environment, the right combination of environment, equipment and care skills are needed. Therefore it is key to design for sufficient space early in the planning of a new facility.

Arjo have talked to architects across the globe to find out more about their processes and how they can support them. The result is an online portal for architects, the Arjo Guide for Architects and Planners.

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