Aging in place symposium: planning, spacial justice in aging societies

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https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/aging-in-a-place

Should be useful information from the leading edge.

AGING IN [A] PLACE SYMPOSIUM: PLANNING, DESIGN & SPATIAL JUSTICE IN AGING SOCIETIES

Date: Friday, October 18, 2019
Time: 1-5:30 pm, Reception to follow
Location: Harvard Graduate School of Design
The United States is an aging society with growing economic inequality and socio-cultural diversity. Age-associated disadvantages, such as declining health, overlap with unequal access to healthy places, suitable housing, and other social determinants of health. These have in many cases affected people throughout life. As a result, there are vast differences in people’s experiences of late life.

Today, public discussion and policy focuses on “aging in place” as a way to improve quality of life and reduce costs. However, in part because of socioeconomic differences and structural inequalities, not all older adults can live in or move to age-supportive communities, neighborhoods, or homes that match their values and needs. Differences in access to places to age well can take the form of spatial inequalities, such as inadequate market rate housing for older adults on fixed incomes.

Co-sponsored by The Hastings Center, the symposium will apply a spatial justice lens to this challenge, asking, who has access to age-friendly communities, accessible housing to prolong independence, and sufficient funds to cover housing and care? How can planners, policymakers, designers, and citizens make progress on social inequalities among older adults through planning and design? How can the fields of medicine, public health, and planning/design work together to effect change?

All attendees must register here.

This event is free and open to the public, and will also be livestreamed on the GSD website. (Note: Full event will be livestreamed on October 18, no registration required. Video will also be made available on YouTube after the event.)



AGENDA

1:00 PM – WELCOME

Chris Herbert, Managing Director, Joint Center for Housing Studies
Mildred Z. Solomon, President, The Hastings Center;
Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

1:15 PM – AGING IN A PLACE: THINKING AND DOING WHERE AGING, INEQUALITY, AND SPATIAL JUSTICE MEET

Nancy Berlinger, Research Scholar, The Hastings Center

1:30 PM – THE JUST CITY IN THE AGING SOCIETY: IDENTIFYING VALUES TO SUPPORT BETTER DESIGN

Toni Griffin, Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Director, The Just City Lab, Harvard Graduate School of Design

2:00 PM – AGING IN PLACE: IDEAL VS. REALITY

Panel moderator: Lisa Marsh Ryerson, President, AARP Foundation

Ann Forsyth, Professor of Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Jennifer Molinsky, Senior Research Associate, Joint Center for Housing Studies
Lauren Taylor, doctoral candidate in Health Policy, Harvard Business School

3:15 PM – BREAK

3:45 PM – AGING WELL IN A PLACE: BRINGING A SPATIAL JUSTICE LENS TO THE AGE-FRIENDLY MOVEMENT

Roundtable facilitator: Reese Fayde, Principal, Reese Fayde & Associates

Robin Lipson, Deputy Secretary, MA Executive Office of Elder Affairs
Emily Greenfield, Associate Professor, Rutgers University School of Social Work
Emi Kiyota, Executive Director, Ibasho
Rodney Harrell, Director, Livability Thought Leadership, AARP Public Policy

5:00 PM – AGING WELL IN THE JUST CITY: VALUES SUPPORTING POLICY, PRACTICE, AND PUBLIC LIFE

Chris Herbert, Managing Director, Joint Center for Housing Studies
Mildred Z. Solomon, President, The Hastings Center;
Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

A reception will follow the event.



This event is made possible by a generous grant to The Hastings Center from The Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust as part of its visionary support for the Center’s research and public engagement on ethical challenges facing aging societies.

(Photo by Ann Forsyth)

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[Newest Reality]

1. The numbers

support the need for this NOW! I am glad to see some attention being paid to this impending crisis.

How do we think it is going to turn out, (with factors like rent and availability of low-income housing, etc.) when we have 10,000 people reaching 65 per day now? Of those 10,000, around half have no assets and little or nothing in the way of net worth and no pension.

Of course, that's just in regards to housing alone. The other factors are health care, food, etc. If you get the full amount of SNAP, in some places it is around $194.00 per month maximum and that is $6.00 per day. Their is no COLA for SNAP and rising food prices mean you can afford less and less as time goes on.

Otherwise, it could become "aging in tent" for scores of seniors and a very common sight. Some of us know how that goes from actual experience.

When seniors go homeless, without any net or support, it can have the same result as for people of any age: you can't get back in. Not only does the period of homelessness make you less of a prospect to landlords, you have to come up with first and last month's rent, plus a security deposit. If the apartment is $1000 per month, you need $3000 up front.

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2. My book on aging in place should be out in March on Amazon.

I am passionate about the subject. For the life of me I cannot figure out why home builders aren’t better at designing homes for aging in place (except, of course it’s cheaper to ignore the issue). But there is a lot we can all do to protect our independence as we age.

[mahina]

3. Hey congrats. Please share the link!

I’m in