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...
Hospitality: ” The friendly reception and treatment of guests or strangers; an act or show of welcome.” Hospitality emerged as a common thread in the last two AHWGO salons. In March Rabbi Elliot Kukla and Beth MacLoed talked about the art of giving and receiving care....
How can I summarize so many different events? A fabulous presentation and ensuing discussion at our AHWGO Salon in February by Dmitri Belser the Executive Director of the Center for Accessible Technology made clear that barriers to technology use by older adults is...
It is about entering a new phase in our life – retirement. Even though retirement might be reincarnated as “second career” or “post main career”, even though we might not be able to afford retirement or choose not to retire, there is still retirement – retirement...
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...
Cities are human ecosystems – they pose challenges and opportunities. They are democratic. As Jane Jacobs said they are about density, diversity and dynamism. With the National Zoning Act of 1923 such diversity became illegal or highly regulated. Both the car and...
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:...
