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We help companies, businesses and organizations design, evaluate and promote consumer products and residential environments that accommodate—and appeal to — people of all ages and abilities.

TRANSGENERATIONAL DESIGN: The practice of making products and environments compatible with those physical and sensory impairments
associated with human aging and which limit major activities of daily living.

Shouldn't all homes be "transgenerational"?

From the car, through the house, to the courtyard and back. Not a stair nor a step, not a bend nor a reach. Accommodating people of all ages and abilities, this sleek, stylish, and livable house features flat thresholds, pull-out kitchen storage, easy-to-reach-and-clean appliances, a dockable kitchen trolley, adjustable-height vanities, roll-in showers, and so much more.

Transgenerational Accommodation

Every eight seconds another former youth turns 50, fueling the world's swelling elder population — a number larger than the entire populations of Russia, Japan, France, Germany, and Australia, combined.

We're at the threshold of a new design era that acknowledges and addresses the older population's search for environmental equality. A ground swell of demand for intelligent human-centered design is being heard throughout the world, and it's signaling the end of descrimination by design.

Accommodating this exploding market demands a new mind-set, and a revised set of values and essential criteria. We can help ensure that your product line can achieve a full range of innovative "transgenerational" accommodation and desirability.

We invite your inquires and comments.

What's New...

Our invited chapter, Transgenerational Design: A Heart Transplant for Housing, is included in the new book, The Silver Market Phenomenon, edited by Florian Kohlbacher, to be published in October 2008 by Springer.

We'll be an invited speaker at the fourth World Ageing & Generations Congress organized by the World Demographic Association, September 28-30, 2008 at the University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland.

We delivered the featured presentation, "The Generation Connection" at CONNECTING'07 World Design Congress, sponsored by ICSID and IDSA, October 18, 2007, San Francisco, CA.

The American Institute of Architects published a 5-page case study of our Transgenerational House — including, plans, features, descriptions, and details — in the Inclusive Design section of its latest (11th) edition of Architectural Graphic Standards

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Last updated April 30, 2008