“Longevity-Ready Environments: Rethinking Physical Spaces for Century-Long Lives So is the Stanford Center on Longevity theme for this ninth year of the Longevity Design Challenge 2021/22. The open call for design submissions begins in mid-September with teams of finalists announced this coming January and winners chosen sometime in April 2022. Every year since 2013, I
AI. Age-Inclusive. Yes that AI. First, on the concept of Age-Inclusive or Age-Friendly design, as it relates to products, services and communities that serve the needs of older populations, it is worth recalling the quote from Bernard Isaacs, Professor of Geriatric Medicine who once said; “Design for the young and you exclude the old; design
A social movement, the language and the course of a social movement, evolves over time, and this is true in the case with the movement to make society more Age-Inclusive. Where do we find the origins of this term? As with most other terminology, you usually find it sprouts from more than one place, but
Since the COVID reality set in during the early days of Spring 2020, and the catastrophe of deaths in long-term care homes captured the headlines, notably in Ontario and Quebec, many organizations that already focused on advocacy for older adults jumped into action. One such entity, led by President, CEO Laura Tamblyn Watts – CanAge