The gap between senior living nursing homes (with monthly costs of $7k-10k per month) and ‘aging-in-place‘ is wide enough to drive a truck through. Sure, the aging-in-place movement is picking up steam, and for good reason. But there is a large amount of ‘blue ocean’ between souped-up PCs connected to pill dispensers and weigh scales, [...]
I suspect that the primary emotion most commonly associated with the experiences of residents and caregivers in today’s senior care facilities is not, by a long stretch, Love. However, this is the idea behind the Green House Project, and an idea both simple and revolutionary that it has the potential to be a real game [...]
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 [...]
