10 points from Professor Eileen Gambrill’s talk and ensuing discussion at the recent AHWGO salon. 1. Decisions about our health are emotional decisions. Unless one is an expert in the field one does not know what information is missing and what questions to ask as...
“Everybody at this time in their lives should know emotionally and spiritually what it is that fills their well…” Surfing For Life , Shay Bintliff, MD and lifelong surfer. Roy Earnest the co-producer of this 1999 documentary recently talked at AHWGO about such...
“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...
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...