Later Living

Designing projects within the Later Living sector requires experience, almost as much as the aged occupants themselves. This experience comes from listening carefully to the residents, as well as their relatives.

Understanding their specific needs is fundamental to ‘getting it right’ for them. Whether it is ensuring that the space around the kitchen is sufficient or that the study is big enough to accommodate their children staying over for a night.

For the decerning clients, who have often bought many properties during their lifetimes, well proportioned and energy efficient homes are a given requirement.

The spaces and places around these new homes grow a heightened significance. Whilst cars enable long distance mobility, they must not dominate the scale and intimacy of an integrated retirement community. Residents must not feel vulnerable to vehicular traffic. They have every right to own the circulation spaces of their world.

The common landscaped areas around the aged living residents should feel inviting and work to replace the lost lawns and heavy maintenance gardens of previous beloved residence. The attention and care shown for these spaces is often seen as a reflection of the values held by the operators of such later living schemes.