Retirement+Home+of+the+Future

The following was originally published April 26, 2011 at http://mgt386.blogspot.com/2011/04/mgt-386-module-02-assignment-retirement.html We are getting older, and more and more of us are living to ages once thought to be unachievable. We're going to need a place to live. The baby boom generation consists of more than 78 million people born between 1946 and 1964, guaranteeing a huge wave of interest in places for them to live out their elder years, And most of them are in a position to afford it - boomers control about $25 trillion in wealth.
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If you could design your own retirement home, what would it look like? What kind of features and services would it have? Your task in this assignment is to describe your vision for the retirement home of the future.

Focus on user needs and draw from your lessons in empathic design. Draw inspiration (or fear) from this quote: “What we design today will be what my generation inherits in its old age" (David Diller, founder of The Sleepover Project).

To complete this assignment, first **read:**
Future med student lives at nursing home to gain empathy (Google doc PDF if link is broken) Rethinking nursing home designfrom Aginginplace.com Empathize like a doctor, design like an entrepreneur (FastCoExist.com) [|Wired Magazine’s article on Found Photoshop Contest: Retirement Homes of the Future].

Then use the Google form below to write and submit your assignment.
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