The mission of the AIA Design for Aging (DFA) Knowledge Community is to foster design innovation and disseminate knowledge necessary to enhance the built environment and quality of life for an aging society. This includes relevant research on characteristics, planning and costs associated with innovative design for aging. In addition, DFA provides outcome data on the value of these design solutions and environments.
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Strategies for Safer Senior Living CommunitiesThis resource includes strategies for dining facilities, amenity spaces, and individual units. Download >
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As the Baby Boomers approach retirement, they will be less tolerant than any generation before them of accepting a lifestyle removed from the community–at–large. This phenomena will encourage CCRC's to explore how their residents can remain an integral part of the community—resulting in the realization that site selection may be one of the most important decisions a CCRC will ever make in exploring how they can provide environments that support aging–in–place.
Submitted by Dodd Kattman, AIA, LEED AP and Zachary Benedict, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP