Past news items related to transgenerational design announced, written or reviewed by a wide variety of organizations and media...

2010

• Multi-generational Housing
  Multi-generational households are a burgeoning trend which is changing what buyers are looking for in a house.
  
  
• New Aging in Place Model
  A growing nmber of neighborhood netwrks are providing the resources to help the elderly  remain independent for as long as possible.
  
  
• Attractive and Functional
  Making a home suitable for older occupants is becomming a mainstream part of the home remodeling business.
  
  
• Grandparents going digital
  How to help grandpa get his tech on. Some of the highest growth rates in broadband use are happening among the elderly.
  
  
• Why is 100 the new 65?
  Why do some people live to 100? Researchers are trying to find out, and the're discovering how we might live better—not just longer—lives.
  
  
• A Coming Elder Revolution?
  The implications of an aging world viewed with alarm. When 10,000 people a day reach retirement age, how will society support them?
  
  
• Help for "The New Old Age
  Easier E-mail for the older generation. An e-mail system that no senior can resist: no logins or links, no ad boxes or news flashes.
  
  
• Student Designs Escalator Accessible to All
  Press a button to make escalator stairs move together to form a platform for weelchair users and people carrying bulky loads.
  
  
• An Aware Car for Boomers  
  Your next vehicle might automatically check your pulse, help with steering—and tell yoou to put down our cellphone.
  
  
• Making Suburbia More Livable 
  Here's how towns are beginning to 'retrofit' their neighborhoods—and what your community might look like in the future.
  
  
• Hanging on at Home
  Society answers the single most fundamental question about retirement: Where will people live as they grow old?

2009

• An "Aware Car" for Boomers
  MIT's AgeLab researchers focus on building a safer car that leads to a forever-youthful lifestyle.

• Cutting Through the Clutter
  An article in Smart Money offers helpful suggestions for aging-in-place.

• Make Surburbia More Livable Age in place communities sprout up across the country. This WSJ article explains why.

• New Cellphones Designed for Elderly Users
  Their appealling, easy-to-use, transgenerational designs are attracting young people as well.

• A New Breed of Boomer-Friendly Products
  They not only look cool— they're easy on vision-impaired eyes and arthritic hands.

• In Search of Innovation
  Nine new ways of looking for and recognizing the next great opportunity "before your competitor does."

• The Logic of Aging-in-Place
  Top 10 reasons Baby Boomers want to stay In their home as they age.

• Go With the Flo.™
  Arizona State University's College of Design students and faculty recognized for their transgenerational toilet design concept.

• Expanding Our Impact
  We've joined the advisory team of AIPatHome.com, specialists in age-in-place technologies, universal design homes and product education.

• Cell Phones for Seniors
  View a movie about a new cell phone designed for active seniors complete with big buttons and handy speed dials.

• Play to Stay
  A-HAH! is the first-of-its-kind card game specially designed to reduce the risk of dimentia.

• Grandma's in the House
  Millions of families have three or more generations living under one roof. This AARP article explains the many advantages of transgenerational design.

• Publish or Perish
  View our kitchen and bath designs in the new book, Universal Design Ideas for Style, Comfort & Safety, by Mary Green.

• Read the review of our Transgenerational House featured in the new book, Universal Design for the Home, by Wendy Jordan, published by Quarry Books.
  
  
• We delivered the invited presentation, "Polishing the Silver Market," at the 4th world Ageing & Generations Congress of the World Demographic Association, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
  

2008

• 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 2008 (11th) edition of Architectural Graphic Standards.

• An eight-page review of our Transgenerational House, designed for all ages and abilities, is featured in the "Home Tours: Whole House Designs" section of the book, Universal Design for the Home, by Wendy Jordan, published IN 2008 by Quarry Books.

• Our invited chapter, Transgenerational Design: A Heart Transplant for Housing, is included in the new book, The Silver Market Phenomenon, edited by Florian Kohlbacher and Cornelius Herstatt, published by Springer and available November 3, 2008.

2007

• 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.

• We were a featured speaker at Living Rooms, a collaborative conference cosponsored by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the Industrial Designers Society of America, May 1-2, 2007 at ASAE Headquarters, Washington, DC.

• Our article, "New Year Reflections," was published in the February 2007 issue of Design for All, a newsletter of the Design for All Institute of India (www.designforall.in).

2006

• We were the closing key-note speaker at the 2006 WithIt Education Conference, "Women in Business:Strategies for Success." Our presentation explored the relation between future life stage trends and the transgenerational house. The annual three-day event was held at the Renaissance Charlotte Suites Hotel in Charlotte, NC.

• Dwell. Quoted about transgenerational design in the article "Rethinking Senior Housing " by Amara Holstein. April, 2006.

2005

• We were selected as an example of "The Power to Expand the Market"inthe epilogue of the new book, "The Design of Things to Come: How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Products." by Craig M. Vogel; Jonathan Cagan, Ph.D.; and Peter Boatwright, Ph.D. Wharton School Publishing, 2005.

• USA Today. Quoted about transgenerational design in the article "2046: A Boomer Odyssey" by Marco R. della Cava. October 27, 2005.

• Ehrenman, Gayle 2005. "Fly the Grayer Skies." A featured article about Boeing looking for ways to meet the changing needs of Baby Boomers. April 2003.Mechanical Engineering, March 2005. New York: American Society of Mecanical Engineers.

• We delivered the keynote address at the Fair Housing Roundtable and Exhibit sponsored by The New Mexico Protection and Advocacy System, Albuquerque, NM, April 28, 2005.

2004

• Metropolis. Interviewed by Martin C. Peterson for "Progress Report: Metropolis checks in with universal design pioneers to see where the movement is now," pp 30-36. December 2004,

• Jacobs, Brian 2004. "Desgn on Time," The Examiner, July 3, 2004,

• We were interviewed by TheMatureMarket.com for the December 13, 2004 article, "The Mature Market: Seniors & Baby boomers Markets World Wide," and which appears on its web site.

2003

• Our Transgenerational House project was featured in a 7-page article published in the September/October 2003 issue of AARP The Magazine, read by over 30 million aging Americans.

• New York Times. Interviewed in an article by Yanick Rice Lamb about the best products that can be used by most people. October 14, 1993,

2002

• Public Broadcasting System (PBS). We were interviewed on Marketplace® by Jo Giese about transgenerational accommodation for Baby Boomers and beyond.

• Mature Focus Radio, a national Mutual Radio production of AARP, interviewed us about transgenerational design for transportation.

2001

• We were quoted in the article, "Designing for baby Boomers and Beyond," by Charmaine Jones, which appeared in the October 26, 2001 issue of Appliance Manufacturer.

• We delivered the lecture, "Transgenerational Design: at the Heart of It All," at the Universal Design International Symposium sponsored by theTokyo Gas Company, Ltd and the Living Design Center Co, Ltd. Tokyo, Japan, February 8, 2001.

2000

• We presented, "The Transgenerational House: A Case Study in Accessible Design and Construction," at Designing for the 21st Century: An International Conference on Universal Design. Providence, RI, June 14-18, 2000.

• National Public Radio. We we were an invited guest onTalk of the Nation,® hosted by Ray Suarez, a one-hour program discussing Ageless Design.

• Albuquerque, NM. We were an invited guest discussing “Designing our Lives for an Aging Population”on KANW Public Radio's half-hour program hosted by Georgia Armijo

• Our interview about transgenerational design appeared in Executive Memo, Marriott Corporation's monthly newsletter to 18,000 hospital, college and business executives.

• National Public Radio. We were interviewed by Bob Edwards on "Morning Edition" discussing transgenerational design and its impact on automobile design.

• Interviewed for “America Comes of Age,” a 7000-word special report in Bristol-Myers Annual Report.

• We were quoted by The Wall Street Journal in the article “Best designs for elderly appeal to young” by John Peterson.

• U.S. News and World Report reported our student's projects in the article “Small gadgets that can change lives.”

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