Single-family homes sprawled across communities may have worked for boomers while they were raising families, but it’s an issue for older adults who want to age in place. There’s good reading in today’s Wall Street Journal on how some communities are beginning to plan for grayer populations by designing age-friendly features. The core idea, the [...] [...more]
Aging in place brings into play a set of issues and questions extending far beyond your actual residence. Does your community offer the key aging-in-place amenities, such as good public transportation, one-stop shopping locations, shuttle services, age-appropriate fitness and community centers. Will you have access to friends and family, and ways to stay engaged and [...] [...more]
Laurie Orlov grew up in the corporate high-tech world, working for 30 years as an information technology executive and later as an analyst for Forrester Research, the respected technology research company. More recently, she has been applying her knowledge to a pressing question facing baby boomers and seniors: how to age in place safely and [...] [...more]
An AARP survey shows that 89 percent of Americans would like to live in their current homes as long as possible–and the number rose to 95 percent when people over age 75 were asked the question. But that same AARP survey shows that most people aren’t doing the proactive thinking necessary to make that a [...] [...more]
There was a time-not long ago-when we didn’t use computers or digital media players to manage our music collections or watch TV. Now we could be approaching something like an era of iPods for aging. At least, that’s Eric Dishman’s vision of the near-term future. Dishman spearheads a major initiative to develop “personal health technologies” [...] [...more]
