Envisioning Aging in Place

Why We Need an “All of the Above” Approach to Aging Boomers

Sue Lantz, B.A., M.P.A, Managing Director Collaborative Aging

Agenda

1. The Pixar Story: Looking at collaboration with fresh eyes

2. Five Main Challenges of Aging Boomers

3. What Makes This Complicated

4. What’s at Stake: If we don’t start acting now

5. Back to Pixar: “Meeting in the middle”

6. Creating a Rounder Table: Four Stories from today

7. Questions and Answers

The Pixar Story

Collaboration…and

Animation of the Aging in

Place Options.

Aging in Place .

Pixar:

Meeting in the Middle

Five Main Challenges

1.The Scale of Change Upon Us

…And Resources For Planning This Journey (We need a “Trip Advisor”)

5. We Need A Forum and a “Rounder Table”…

Boomers, Seniors, and Caregivers

Non Profit Organizations

Governments (All Levels)

Businesses & Professionals

What Makes This

Complicated

2. Going Deeper- Age Friendly Communities (AFC)

• Synchronized Gov’t Policy

• AFC within Official City/Town Plans • Housing, Built Form, Community Spaces

• Neighborhood/Transportation Design

• Business, Developer and Charity Leadership

• Participatory Change/Community Action

• Technology Innovation

• Inspiring Design of AIP options

3. Housing

• In the right style

• In the right form

• In the right locations

• At the right cost (affordability)

• Available at the right time

• With the right supportive care (or specialized) on-site for some populations

4. Care in the Home & Community

• Navigable for Seniors and Caregivers • Clarity of eligibility, publicly-funded vs. individually-

funded, easy to find and contact, understandable terms & costs

• Supported by Navigators/Co-ordinators • Well co-ordinated with other sources of care

• Options for Care in the home/community: • At the right time (of day/week, and timing) • In the right location • In the right form (various models of organizing – including self-

directed, and the right type of staff/continuity) • At the right cost (affordability) • With consumer and worker protections

Avoid or prepare for this journey?

As individuals, communities, and society.

What will it be?

Avoid or prepare.

What’s At Stake:

Avoid? X Crisis decisions X Reactive situations (individuals, providers, caregivers, communities, levels of government policy) X Inadequate supply of accessible and desirable housing options X More hardship: individually, caregivers, communities, society X Economic burdens, impact on workplaces, more costly options X Healthcare system more pressured/in crisis response mode

What’s At Stake:

Prepare? Individuals/caregivers more ready for challenges of aging

More clarity about the aging in place options and adequate supply of accessible housing and care (individuals, marketplace, policy makers)

More proactive and empowering tools for planning, decision making, and organizing care (Think Trip Advisor!) Home care, healthcare organized and delivered in more customized ways and

more accessible formats, especially supporting caregivers Housing, neighborhood designs, workplaces, schools are conducive to aging in

place, including supporting caregivers Technology solutions support practical “on the ground” needs

Government Policies more enabling of options

Back to Pixar Story:

Today is a starting point for “Meeting in the Middle!”

Four Stories from Today:

Emerging Models, Solutions and Ideas

For Shaping the Aging in Place Options

Panel 1: Leading Edge Municipal

Planning and Processes

Panel 2: Industry-Led Home

Renovations

for Accessibility and Aging In Place

Panel 3: Senior-Led Collaborative Model

(NORC)

Panel 4: Forging New Designs for Supportive

Residential Settings

Creating the Aging in Place Options

Let’s get started.

Questions and Answers