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Portland Promising Tiny Housing Revolution

April 20, 2017 | Beth Baker, ChangingAging Contributor

More than a decade ago, Portland began to encourage homeowners to build backyard cottages as a way to help alleviate a growing lack of affordable close-in housing. The city is now looking to dramatically increase tiny house development.

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Seattle’s All-inclusive Dementia-Friendly ‘Momentia’ Movement Grows

January 13, 2017 | Meg LaPorte, ChangingAging Contributor

Formed as a coalition of “community partners,” Momentia’s purpose is to empower people with memory loss and their care partners to remain connected and active in the community. Central to the movement’s philosophy is its positive perspective on dementia and a collective determination “to transform what it means to live with dementia in the community—thus changing the story from one of despair to one of hope.”

A Critical Direction for Aging

January 6, 2017 | Jeanette Leardi, ChangingAging Contributor

We must consider the concept of direction as we decide the next steps to take in order to disrupt aging. How should we move forward, given a new political climate?

Fighting the Three Plagues of Institutional Care at Home

April 11, 2016 | Beth Baker, ChangingAging Contributor

Senior Services Winston-Salem is one of the nation’s largest broad-based non-profits serving elders to undergo a company-wide transformation in its culture through Eden at Home, with the goal of enhancing the quality of life of the older people they serve.

Purposeful Community Living

February 4, 2016 | Meg LaPorte, ChangingAging Contributor

If Charles House in Chapel Hill, N.C., sounds like a Green House Project home, it’s not an accident. When executive director Paul Klever and his colleagues set out to design the homes, their goal was to create the farthest thing from an institution as possible.