Taking Charge: New models for Aging in Place, Designed by Seniors, for Seniors

AFC Past Webinars, Age-Friendly Communities Knowledge Exchange, Age-Friendly Communities Outreach

WEBINAR DESCRIPTION

Date: June 14 2018

Presenters:

  • Jen Recknagel, Design Researcher, UHN OpenLab

Taking Charge: New models for Aging in Place, Designed by Seniors, for Seniors, is a research-through-storytelling project aimed at uncovering grassroots models of seniors’ supportive living that are emerging across Canada and the United States. It employs a lead user approach to explore initiatives that address the issues of aging in place and senior social isolation, and presents a distillation of key insights and emergent principles extracted from ethnographic site visits.

In this webinar the presenter discussed four housing models:

  1. Homesharing
  2. Seniors cohousing
  3. Naturally occurring retirement communities with supportive service program (NORC-SSP)
  4. Virtual villages.

Each case study included audio documentaries of user experiences, and photographic documentation of community life.

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