Tag Archives: Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities

Neighbourhood-based Integrated Care: A Global View.

Over the last two decades as we have moved forward year by year with higher numbers of older people making up our urban populations, (let’s run with age 65 as the start in this post), we have come to realize that we needed to realign plans, policies and processes for systems that support everyday living,

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Living Longer Where We Want? A Multifaceted Discourse.

At the Agile Ageing Alliance Leaders Forum in London last month, on the panel titled Reimaging Care in the Community, Rebecca Jarvis of the Health Innovation Network in London referenced her 2020 report Alternatives to Long Term Institutional Care for Older People. As I quoted Jarvis from this well-written document “There is a range of different ‘housing with care’

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Age-Inclusive Communities: Equity by Design 3

What an excellent program! The 2022 Equity by Design webinar series from AARP International kicked off today with the topic of Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU’s). When I last took part in the Equity by Design webinars in November 2021, I had become swept away by the tide of so many other virtual events around that time,

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