Did Developers Badly Miscalculate How, Where Seniors Want To Live?

As more new senior housing is delivered every year, more evidence piles up that the generation expected to move into it has other ideas.

Universal Design (UD) is an approach to design that increases the potential for developing a better quality of life for a wide range of individuals. It is a design process that enables and empowers a diverse population by improving human performance, health and wellness, and social participation (Steinfeld and Maisel, 2012). It creates products, systems, and environments to be as usable as possible by as many people as possible regardless of age, ability or situation.