Color and Healing
By: Sheila J. Bosch, PhD, LEED AP, EDAC Rosalyn Cama, FASID, EDAC Eve Edelstein, MArch, PhD, EDAC, AssocAIA, F-AAA It
Impairments of old age for which design can help
Design for dementia builds on design that is beneficial for older people in general. This section provides a brief summary
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Design principles for therapeutic garden environments
Provide sensory stimuli that is noninvasive in character to draw our attention away from the initial feeling state to an
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The Unprepared Caregiver
By Marilyn Moon, PhD The role of caregiver is an extremely important and challenging undertaking—and one that most of us
Why Are There So Few Age-Friendly Cities?
Why are a few communities, like New York and Portland, Ore., working to become more age-friendly for their residents but
Building Smart Technology For An Aging Population
When today’s older adults were kids, owning a television was considered a luxury. Personal computers had yet to be conceptualized,
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Playgrounds For The Elderly Boost Activity And Decrease Loneliness
Someone recently came up with the idea to build playgrounds for the elderly and this is just such a wonderful
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One shrinking Japanese town’s plan: Give away houses for free
Produced by Lucy Craft and Chris Laible. © 2019 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved In the hillsides outside of Tokyo
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Old Age and Fall Risk
By Aysel Özdemir Fall is defined as touching the ground in an unexpected and unprepared way due to a loss
Essay on aging and Age
By Milorad Toša Zikic Gulliver’s Travel writer Jonathan Swift wrote ‘that all people would like to live long, but no