Trends in Senior Living Design

Trends in Senior Living Design is a webinar presentation of the Top Ten Trends in Senior Living and the impact and application of those trends on the senior living community industry.

Describing the markets of the future does not require a powerful crystal ball. Instead it necessitates listening to what people say today about what they want in the future, and combining this with a view of the life experiences that are occurring now for those future markets. In other words, identifying what major trends and expectations people are adopting right now helps us know what they will want to carry into their retirement years.

Trends in Senior Living Design uses consumer data from dozens of retirement communities that continue to show changing desires with regard to retirement living, such as:

• Desire for access to services when and where people want them: flexibility
• Concerns about pricing/cost
• Will future cohorts have increased home values?
• Land costs and availability in desirable locations
• Decreasing geographic ties
• Constantly increasing demand for larger accommodations: where do people want to spend their resources?
• Accessibility to broader community rather than islands

This webinar presentation identifies expectations of future markets based precisely on the above element and market survey data of what people aged 65-69 anticipate that they will want. It also presents results from continual monitoring of more global trends and their relation to the senior living markets of the future. It presents the Top Ten Trends of future senior living along with their impacts on the field, how providers might respond to and take advantage of these trends. It also provides concrete suggestions about integrating them to respond to tomorrows' market demands, and barriers to integrating them into today's and tomorrow's communities.

Webinar Learning Objectives

• Identify expectations for future markets based on market survey data of what people aged 65-69 anticipate they will want.
  
  
• Identify the top ten trends of future senior living and their impacts on the field.
  
  
• Respond to the trends that have been discussed with concrete ways of integrating them into their communities to meet tomorrow's market demands.

About the Speaker:

		Daniel J. Cinelli, FAIA Principal, Perkins Eastman
Dan has collaborated with more than 100 national senior living not-for-profit organizations, sponsors, and associations and has become a true visionary in the field. His particular strength lies in leveraging 30 years of experience to facilitate his clients' strategic future thinking. Dan has been a speaker, strategic partner, and advisor to the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) and 15 other not-for-profit state associations since 1982. He has led more than 60 educational sessions with life-changing ideas, including: 13 lectures at AAHSA Annual Meetings and five AAHSA-sponsored senior housing design seminars 17 lectures at the Annual Meetings of a variety of AAHSA state chapters A course on Planning and Design for a New Generation of Seniors at Harvard's Graduate School of Design in 2006 An environmental design course as a faculty member of the University of North Texas (UNT) Coalition for Leadership in Aging Services (CLAS) program for the last 15 years   Dan is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA), and Life Services Network (LSN). He served as Past Chairman of the AIA Chicago Chapter Housing Committee, Global Design Alliance, and Highland Park Housing Commission; was a Founding Member of the Society for Advancement of Geriatric Environments (SAGE); and is a registered architect in the states of Illinois, New York, Texas, Arizona, and Ohio. Dan received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Illinois at Chicago with Honors and Distinction. Many of Mr. Cinelli's design and planning concepts have received awards from two of the senior living industry's most respected programs — AIA/AAHSA Design for Aging Review and Contemporary Long Term Care.