‘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...
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 it often happens in life, clues come in sequence. At our last AWGO Salon Dr. Guy Micco, Clinical Professor in the UCB/UCSF Joint Medical Program and Director of the UC Berkeley Academic Geriatric Resource Center, talked about what people associate with “old” and...
