Yes, it still starts in Kansas. I was invited recently to talk to the New Cities Initiative at the University of Kansas about design for intergenerational living “Outside Places of People – Opportunities for Connectivity and being ‘At Home With Growing Old’. Dennis...
We baby boomers have undoubtedly a reputation for being radical and it is time to live up to it again. We are expected to figure it out ourselves – fast – how we will live this next stage in life. Radical solutions would respond to the core values of...
‘Not enough are fearless to move forward’. So, here we are, people from all walks of life, different professional experience, different training, at different stages of our careers and life, different parts of the country (and Canada) brought together by a...
How can you make a complex, very specialized topic accessible and interesting to an interdisciplinary audience (from architects to social workers)? At our recent AHWGO salon Wendy Peterson, director of the Senior Services Coalition of Alameda masterfully introduced...
(Presenters: Susanne Stadler, Architect , Cathy Spensley, Family Service Agency San Francisco, Jarmin Yeh, USCF) Everyday life means often life at home as we get older. It seems intuitive that this home therefore has to be as supportive as possible of our ever...
What voice do we have in how and when we want to die. Only two in five people have advance health care directives according to a Harris Interactive Study from 2007. I do not have one – yet. Although listening to Attorney Philip Batchelder who recently talked at an...
From a 900 SF house for five people to an 800 SF house for a young family with one child to a 3000 SF house for a family of three which ended up being a house for two for 40 years after their daughter had left to a 500 SF apartment for two in a senior residence to a...
An aging population together with new economic pressures requires imaginative solutions. With a dramatic shift in demographics and a concurrent shift in demand for age appropriate housing, design for lifelong homes or age friendly housing needs to become the new...
Aging in place and aging in community has been promoted as innovative and human centered concepts that keep people longer out of institutional care. Heralded as the solution for the highly individualistic and demanding members of the baby boomer generation this way of...
