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A Day In The Life – What Home Means As We Grow Old – ASA Conference Chicago 2013

by Susanne Stadler | April 9th, 2013 | No Comments

(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 changing needs, emotional as well as physical ones. Reality is a very [...]

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Housing – Certified ‘Age Friendly’

by Susanne Stadler | December 18th, 2012 | No Comments

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 ”green” and move into the mainstream. Is a hill town in Italy where people have [...]

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Creating Life Enhancing Environments

by Susanne Stadler | October 23rd, 2012 | No Comments

We all know that we feel at home in some spaces, adrift in others. As we get older this feeling of being at home is crucial to a person’s well being and dependent on the quality of the space that surrounds us. This, especially at a time when our homes have reemerged as places of [...]

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