I was just introduced to the wonderful concept of Fixperts – a new project by British designers Daniel Charney and James Carrigan that celebrates the often overlooked but powerful value of handy people fixing things, and helping others in the process. The project is looking to become a fully-fledged collaborative social site where through the [...]
[ This is a guest post by Suzie Mitchell ] As a blogger and reviewer of mobile apps and websites targeted to Boomers and Seniors, my email box receives two to three requests a day from developers or public relations people who declare they have a “great app, my readers would love.” Never knowing what [...]
[This is a guest post by Bruce Lederman, who joined us in Chicago for our first #aging2 event there earlier this week. Bruce has over 20 years experience in the senior care field and serves as chair of the board of directors for a non-profit senior care agency. This post originally appeared on his Aging in [...]
In the previous post about the Healthcare Unbound Conference, Ryan Frederick commented that the time for change is now and that in order to create meaningful change we need to (1) focus on the consumer and (2) design innovative business models. LeadingAge and LeadingAge CAST co-sponsored a session – Innovative Technology-Enabled Care Models – which [...]
[Note: This is a guest post by Suzie Mitchell (@suziemitchell), who runs MitchellPR and blogs about technology for the AARP. This post first appeared on Business2. It raises the interesting topic about guidelines/ standards for designing web and mobile sites for seniors. I know there are some technical specs (such as these), but do designers [...]
The Japanese are great at age-tech gadgets – I’m constantly finding shiny things in that market to share with our readers. The good thing about this latest innovation from design house D Art out of Japan, is that it’s low, and seems ergonomically designed to tilt, and therefore be more stable, and easier to get [...]
4sum is the working name for an approach to senior living that we’ve been talking about for few weeks now, and would like to explore in more detail. It’s a concept that involves communal living with shared services and support staff, but at a micro-scale. Matthias Hollwich first proposed the idea to me during our [...]
Matthias Hollwich is on a mission. The 40-year old Bavarian architect is focusing his considerable Teutonic energy to bring about nothing less than a ‘revolution’ in the aging experience. The founder of New York architect firm Hollwich Kushner (HWKN) is a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania who created last year’s well-received New Aging conference– that brought together [...]
As climate change threatens to replace tepid summers with scorchers, and the proportion of the West’s population over 65 rises to one fifth within the next decade, many countries will arguably begin to look a lot like Florida.
This is a great example of what has to be a powerful trend that has been rather slow to get going – sexy aging products. The fact that that prhase is still an oxymoron shows so far we have to go, but if this is indicative of a broader story (and we always hope it [...]
