'health Equity' Includes Universal Design, Aging In Place

By Richard Mize Real Estate Editor rmize@oklahoman.com"Universal design" caught my personal attention as Lance Robertson gave a rundown of key areas of health equity addressed by the federal agency he heads, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Community Living. That is, access isn't the only housing issue facing the nation as we age. Fundamental changes in home design will be required to keep some of us from having to put the rest of us in institutions, which is a clinical way of saying assisted living, which boomers know as old folks' homes. I turn 54 on May 2, I think about housing for a living, and I'm surrounded by older boomers and quite a few folks from the so-called Silent Generation born in the 1920s to early '40s.Read more on NewsOK.com

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