• IAHSA Blog is Moving to IAHSA.net

    Updated: 2024-04-22 05:37:20
    Hello loyal followers and readers! We have some good and bad news. The good news first? IAHSA is launching its new and improved website featuring more robust content, user friendly layout and integrated features.  The new website will be available as of Monday, September 24.  It has a search feature which allows you to seek […]

  • Universal Design by Sweden

    Updated: 2024-04-22 05:37:20
    Ikea design has nothing on KTH Royal Institute of Technology’s Centre for Health and Building.  The KTH Centre for Health and Building (CHB) undertakes Research and Design (R&D) projects in cooperation with universities, industrial companies, municipalities and county councils – always taking into consideration universal design. Every feature in the CHB Full Scale Living Laboratory […]

  • 2012 Idea House – Home Improvement

    Updated: 2024-04-22 05:37:20
    As part of LeadingAge’s Annual Meeting taking place 21-24 October 2012 in Denver, Colorado, the LeadingAGe IdeaHouse takes the spotlight in innovative design.  Combining 110 ideas, this year’s house boasts an array of designs and technology applications in a new 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom cottage-style home. 30 companies will be exhibiting this highly sought-after design […]

  • Lessons from Senior Living

    Updated: 2024-04-22 05:37:19
    The IAHSA and LeadingAge Housing with Services Study Tour was inspiring, informative and interesting.  Each of the five communities we visited brought something new to the table and showed what dedication and commitment can do for senior living.   The most important lessons we took with us are seldom taught, and less often shared.  The leaders […]

  • The Art of Ageing – Exhibitions on Perceptions of Ageing

    Updated: 2024-04-22 05:37:19
    Changing attitudes, shifting perspectives and creation of new norms when it comes to ageing may seem like an arduous feat.  Art, as usual, has come to the rescue to help facilitate positive outcomes. Imagine your life transformed before your eyes and knowing now what you wouldn’t for another 60, 70 years.  In Israel, the Dialogue […]

  • Social Security and the Decline of the Employer Pension System

    Updated: 2024-04-17 01:00:00
    While Social Security is not exactly a pension system, it has had a negative effect on private pension plans and has discouraged people from engaging in long-term savings. In the end, its negative effects outweigh the positive ones.

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