Musing Exploring Sharing Learning Connecting Expanding One’s Thinking These were some of the words a group of participants in AHWGO’s first strategy session used to describe what they thought the purpose of our get-togethers were. Multidisciplinary ...
Most older adults spend much more time at home than in their younger years. It is at the time of old age when change is so physically and mentally part of our daily lives that we need home most. Home has to support our sense of self, our sense of safety and our sense...
We act all through life to portray a ‘normal’ self that balances the chaos within with the demands of the world around us. When we get older sometimes this chaos is even more difficult to tame since we are subject to physical and mental changes. Slipping into the role...
Redwing Keyssar who recently spoke at AHWGO set out early in her life to assist people in this transformation. Throughout these years she has kept a journal. Those stories and reflections are now part of her insightful book “Last Act of Kindness”. She continues to be...
I recently had the opportunity to catch a couple of films that were presented as part of the Legacy Film Series Film Festival on Aging, curated by director Sheila Malkind. As a sometime choreographer myself, I was compelled to watch the series of films that were most...
The ASA (American Society on Aging) Conference in San Francisco has come to an end. Tessa Ten Tuscher (clinical psychology), Howard Lau (industrial engineering) and I (Susi Stadler – architecture) collaborated on a workshop. The topic was how we can implement a human...
Self organization is the hallmark of collective housing. Self-organization means freedom to found and shape your ‘shade of community’, establish a community based on ‘elective affinity’ or become ‘kindred by choice’. With it comes the responsibility to contribute to...
For this post I’d like to share a couple of interesting elder-related items situated not-so-typically: a video contest and a fashion blog. Norwegian electronic group Royksopp just held a video contest for their new album, Senior. The winning video, I’m...
Last weekend, I had the privilege of attending a conference featuring some of the top minds of design (who are thinking about sustainability, of course): Compostmodern 2011. Put together by the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), the event featured folks from...
