Preparing a Home for Old Age in Young Age

Illustration for Metropolis by Alex Nabaum
Illustration for Metropolis by Alex Nabaum
How can you can design your home to stay there forever? Coloradoan Cynthia Leibrock, a designer, author, consultant and Harvard instructor, thinks about and answers that question every day. Visit her web site at: www.agingbeautifully.org.‘I want people to know no matter whether they have mental or physical ‘disabilities’ €” change that word to differences €” they are only disabled if they can’t do what they want to do. Architecture can eliminate disability by design. You see my point. If you are in a house where you can do what you want to do, you’re not disabled anymore.” – Cynthia Leibrock, New York Times Story, Feb. 18, 2009