Design for the elderly
Hacker Architects designs stepped senior housing to “balance togetherness with independence”
Disappearing ink fades like memories in book that “rewrites the story of dementia”
Tombot and Creature Shop create “hyper-realistic” robotic puppy for dementia patients
Max Núñez Arquitectos creates concrete care home in Chile
Eighteen designers create walking sticks for their future selves
Madrid home designed to reinforce social networks for ageing couple
Studio Libeskind creates social housing block for first New York project
Dorschner Kahl and Heine Mildner arrange multi-generational housing around communal garden
Whitten Architects places single-storey Maine home on stilts to “evoke a treehouse”
Tower in Ontario becomes world’s tallest retrofitted Passivhaus structure
Pearson Lloyd attempts to shift stigma around stairlifts with Flow X
Sarah Wigglesworth future-proofs self-designed straw bale house in London
Overhanging roof shelters black-timber Senior Shelter in the Netherlands
Kaunitz Yeung Architecture co-designs care facility with Yolŋu elders in Australia
Remsen releases homeware to “bring back joy” to design for the elderly
Anker Bak designs products to address “taboo” topics of ageing and death
Witherford Watson Mann draws on traditional almshouses for Appleby Blue senior housing
NORD Architects adopts recognisable architectural forms for Alzheimer’s Village
Mae designs senior day-care centre in southeast London to tackle social isolation
Lotte armchair by Sarah Hossli helps elderly users stand up safely
Neil Dusheiko transforms London fashion showroom into light-filled home
Tetris and Sangberg design senior housing around a covered communal courtyard
Hack Care is an IKEA-style catalogue of DIY adjustments for dementia-friendly homes