Crafting high-performing flooring that brings the comfort of home to senior living.
Senior living communities pose a unique design challenge. Flooring for independent living, assisted living, and memory care should feel warm and familiar to residents while delivering the durability and performance expected of healthcare spaces. That’s why Mannington Commercial offers the industry’s broadest portfolio of hard and soft surface flooring for healthy and vibrant spaces across every level of care.
We partner with designers and care teams to create environments that support senior living. Our flooring solutions are thoughtfully crafted with the slip resistance, superior noise reduction, easy maintenance, and infection-control features these communities depend on every day. And with our coordinated portfolio of designs, you have the flexibility to choose the look you want with the performance you need.
At Mannington Commercial, we can help you design senior living spaces that look and feel like home for years to come.
Why Mannington
Falls are one of the biggest safety concerns in senior living environments, and flooring plays a central role in preventing them. The right surfaces help residents move confidently, support mobility devices, and reduce hazards created by abrupt transitions or poor traction. Mannington Commercial offers ADA-aligned slip-resistant flooring, thoughtful transition solutions, and design guidance that helps keep residents safe without compromising the look and feel of a space.
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Reliable Slip-Resistance Performance: Our resilient sheet, LVT, and rubber flooring options are engineered to provide the appropriate level of traction for senior communities. Each surface meets ADA recommendations for slip resistance and is tested to support safer movement for residents who may shuffle, use mobility aids, or have limited balance. Select resilient sheet and rubber constructions also provide enhanced traction for areas that may see frequent spills such as dining areas.
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Smooth, Low-Profile Transitions: Abrupt height changes are a common source of falls in senior living. Our thicker-construction LVT and solutions like the Fusion Transition Strip help create subtle transitions between carpet, LVT, and resilient sheet that reduce tripping hazards in your community.
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Safety Without Sacrificing Style: Senior living spaces can be warm, elegant, and inviting and still meet rigorous safety expectations. Coordinated palettes across our carpet, LVT, and resilient sheet collections allow you to maintain a cohesive residential look while specifying the slip-resistant surfaces each area requires. With our flooring solutions, you can build environments that feel like home without compromising resident safety.
Memory care environments rely on thoughtful visual cues that help residents feel grounded and safe as they move through their community. Flooring plays a key role in supporting orientation, reducing confusion, and preventing missteps caused by visual misperception. Our carpet, LVT, and resilient sheet collections offer the color clarity, subtle patterning, and customizable wayfinding tools designers need to create supportive spaces for residents with cognitive challenges.
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Color & Contrast Choices: Clear contrast between flooring, walls, and furniture helps residents better understand their surroundings as depth perception changes with age. Our broad range of color palettes make it easy to specify flooring that avoids overly dark tones—which can appear as holes or drop-offs to aging eyes—to support safe navigation.
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Patterns Designed for Cognitive Comfort: Subtle, low-contrast patterns are recommended in memory care to avoid visual confusion or the appearance of movement on the floor. Our carpet tile and broadloom collections offer soft, blended patterns that provide visual interest without disrupting orientation or increasing anxiety.
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Wayfinding Built Directly into the Floor: Wayfinding is especially powerful in memory care, helping residents recognize where they are and where they’re going without relying on signage alone. With customizable carpet and Wayfinding LVT options, designers can incorporate color shifts, pattern changes, or directional cues to support intuitive movement throughout the community.
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Coordinated Palettes for Familiarity: Visual consistency reduces cognitive load and helps residents feel more at ease as they move between spaces. Coordinated colors and patterns across our carpet, LVT, and resilient sheet portfolio allow designers to maintain a familiar visual language while still meeting the unique performance needs of each area.
Noise can have a surprisingly big impact on daily life in senior living communities. Whether it’s footsteps in a hallway, activity in a neighboring room, or the movement of mobility devices, controlling noise helps create a sense of comfort and security for residents. Our acoustic-focused flooring solutions help quiet those everyday sounds to support better rest, clearer communication, and a more welcoming community environment.
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Quiet Underfoot with Carpet Tile: Mannington Commercial carpet tile naturally absorbs sound within a room, helping reduce echo and background noise in resident rooms, corridors, and dining areas. Better acoustics support clearer conversation among staff and help reduce agitation for residents.
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Built-In Acoustic Control: Our rigid LVT featuring FloorArmor® includes an attached sound-abatement pad that reduces the sound of footsteps and helps limit noise transfer between floors. This allows residents to enjoy more restful sleep by minimizing disruptions during nighttime caregiving rounds.
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Acoustic Underlayment Technology: Our LockStep® and Silent Solution® underlayment systems significantly reduce floor-to-floor sound transfer and noise within rooms at your facility. These solutions are mold, mildew, bacteria and fungi resistant and exceed FloorScore indoor air quality requirements to help you further protect resident well-being.
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Rubber for Quiet, Comfortable Environments: With its ability to absorb noise and reduce echo, our rubber sheet flooring helps create calmer, more restful shared spaces. Cushioned construction also provides underfoot comfort that supports staff during long periods of standing while caregiving.
In senior living communities, flooring plays a direct role in protecting resident health. Resilient sheet offers a seamless, easy-to-sanitize surface that helps your team clean more efficiently and maintain higher levels of hygiene to protect residents who are more vulnerable to illness.
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Seamless, Easy-to-Sanitize Surfaces: Resilient sheet can be heat-welded to create a continuous, monolithic surface that prevents dirt and moisture from settling into joints, allowing staff to clean and disinfect spaces more quickly and thoroughly. And with our Seam+Advantage® technology, resilient sheet can be chemically welded to Integra® HP carpet, forming a smooth, hygienic transition that reduces trip hazards for residents.
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Low-VOC, Healthier Materials: All resilient sheet products are FloorScore® certified, helping reduce airborne chemical exposure and supporting healthier indoor air quality for residents who may be more sensitive to environmental irritants. Neutral-pH, water-first cleaning recommendations further reduce chemical exposure in sensitive environments.
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Antimicrobial Finishes: Select collections feature antimicrobial technology that helps inhibit the growth of bacteria and mold on the floor’s surface.
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Quantum Guard Elite® Protection: Our industry-leading urethane coating provides exceptional ease of cleaning, abrasion resistance and stain resistance, keeping your facility more hygienic and attractive, with less effort.
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Clear Product Care Guidelines: Straightforward, product-specific maintenance instructions make it easier for teams to clean properly and protect flooring performance over time. Use of microfiber tools, neutral cleaners, and low-moisture methods reduce environmental impact while helping floors reach their full warranted life.
