Private homes are public places. There is no doubt. Yet many of them are not designed for inhabitants or visitors of different ages and abilities. How many of you have friends or family members who are in a wheel chair or need some other assisted mobility device?...
Pete Halberstadt owns West Advertising and among his clients are Assisted Living Homes and Car Dealerships. Everybody wants a new car but what about advertising care, and the image of a home when people are mostly in crisis and have exhausted the option of staying in...
“Just as those in the medical profession can treat and heal so can designers”.  Most of us have experienced the importance of nature in our well being, looking out over the vast ocean, watching a humming bird buzz around a fragrant bush, harvesting tomatoes in our...
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...
(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...
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...
