Aging in place
Oh man, I’ve got to start this post with a quote: “The back to the city” meme appeals to urban boosters and reporters but in reality the numbers behind it are quite small. A 2011 survey by the real estate advisory firm RCLCO found that among affluent empty nesters, 65% planned to stay in their current home,…
In our ongoing series, Interview with an Architect, we speak with leading voices in the North Texas architecture community and learn about their work, development issues in our community, and good design practices and principals (you can read the last one here). Jeffrey L. Green sees artistry in a home renovation, finding “the potential in what is…
Joe Williams is an evangelist for the “totally accessible home.” As CEO and founder of Dallas’ Elevating Systems, Williams has spent 25 years helping clients easily get to every space in their homes and plan for the future with residential home elevators. “I have seen a huge increase in demand, due mostly to the needs of an aging population,” he…
A survey recently released by the Global Social Enterprise Initiative at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business polled 1,000 people ages 50 to 80 years old. Only about 1 in 5 respondents to the survey had any plan to remodel their homes or incorporate technology to help them as they age, and yet, the vast…
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