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...
It is the 1998’s and design for aging is not at the forefront of people’s mind but Lynette Evans designed the interior of a house for her elder parents with a lot of foresight in mind. It allowed her mother after her stroke to continue to live in her own home. The...
At last week’s ‘Thought Leader Roundtable and Dinner’ Family Caregiver Alliance of San Francisco kicked off a discussion on the future of care giving by looking at the potential that private and public partnerships can provide. This comes at a time when many...
Dear members of AT HOME WITH GROWING OLD, To be at all – to exist in any way – is to be somewhere, and to be somewhere is to be in some kind of place. Place is as requisite as the air we breathe, the ground on which we stand, the bodies we have. We are surrounded by...
Dear members of AT HOME WITH GROWING OLD, The discussion we had on older San Franciscans living alone triggered so many thoughts. Thank you for spending two hours of your time with me! It was one of my most stimulating experiences. I was lucky to gather even more...
Greetings all! We have been super busy at my architecture firm, Stadler &. I do intend on debriefing you all on the previous At Home with Growing Old group meetings, but today I would like to debut a speculative project we have been working on in the office:...
