
10 Design Trends for Aging in Place
Mary Jo Peterson, CKD, CBD, CAPS shares her top design requests from clients for aging in place.
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Mary Jo Peterson, CKD, CBD, CAPS shares her top design requests from clients for aging in place.
David Lindeman, executive director of the Center for Technology and Aging, said when seniors begin seeing “real-life applications for health IT that actually improve their lives,” barriers to technology go down and adoption goes up.

Innovative transgeneration design solution from James J. Pirkl, FIDSA: Accessible Entryway with no step, no trip access and a protected, package drop off.
Have you ever spent an hour (or two or three) on the phone functioning as your parents (or grandparents, or fill-in-the-blank) IT department? And you all feel like screaming – some cases actually screaming — out of frustration? You, because you know it’s only a couple of clicks and problem solved. Them, because “you said it was easy – only a couple of clicks and problems solved! What do I need this computer for anyway?”

MIT Graduate student Erez Lieberman is working on an “iShoe” which uses technology developed by NASA to create an insole that could help elderly people keep their balance and prevent falls
Recently technological developments in the area of brain machine interface (BMI) have received much attention. Such systems allow elderly or handicapped people to interact with the world through signals from their brains, without having to give voice commands.