This session was presented at the University of Indianapolis\'s Center for Aging and Community\'s "Inside, Outside, All Around the Town" symposium in honor of the Center\'s 10th Anniversary. The presentation focuses on macro-level planning strategies to creatively use rapidly growing elderly populations as a resource to revitalize and save struggling rural communities and urban villages.
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Presented by Zachary Benedict, AIA, LEED AP BD+C
Morrison Kattman Menze, Inc. University of Indianapolis, Center for Aging & Community “Inside, Outside, All Around the Town” Workshop Tuesday, April 17, 2012, Indianapolis, IN
Macro-Strategies for Intergenerational Communities Exploring how Communities will React to an Aging Population
“Only by understanding the rise of this [creative] class and its values can we begin to understand the sweeping and seemingly disjointed changes in our society and begin to shape our future more intelligently.”
2. BRAIN DRAIN “Maybe it’s the Indiana attitude. I’ve never
been anywhere that is so risk-adverse. A lot of parents just don’t value education, and they’ve passed that on to their kids. There's a lack of leadership. Indiana people seem to be content to be mediocre people living in mediocre cities.”
Difference in Median Annual Earning Between College Graduates and High School Graduates in Indiana vs. the U.S. and the Top 10 States (18-64 Year Olds) for 2000. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 Census 5% Public Use Microdata Samples.
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When I retire I want to drink beer and work on my car all day long. I know I won’t be able to drive the damn thing, but that’s not the point. I have worked hard, and when I retire that’s what
I want to do. So give me a garage, a fridge full of beer, and leave me alone. Sure… come in to change my diaper, make sure I have a pulse – but then let me get back to changing my carburetor…
…and if you won’t do it, I will pay for someone else to; and if I cant find anyone I will find friends of mine and we will just build our own damn garage and hire 30 full time nurses.
Our enormous and rapidly growing older population is a vast, untapped resource. If we can engage these individuals in ways that fill urgent gaps in our society, the result will be a windfall for American civic life in the twenty-first century.
“ ” Marc Freedman
Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America (1999)
ENGAGEMENT
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NATURAL TRANSECT ZONES URBAN TRANSECT ZONES T1: NATURAL ZONE T2: RURAL ZONE T3: SUBURBAN ZONE T4: GENERAL URBAN ZONE T5: URBAN CENTER ZONE T6: URBAN CORE ZONE
FORM-BASED CODES
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A Roseto Cornet Band rehearsing. Photo by Steve Schapiro. The Roseto Story: An Anatomy of Health, by John Bruhn and Stewart Wolf (1979), p68.
“The Rosetans were healthy… because of the world they had created for themselves in their tiny little town in the hills. […] Living a long life, the conventional wisdom of the time depended to a great extent on who we were – that is, our genes. It depended on the decisions we made – on what we chose to eat, and how much we chose to exercise, and how effectively we were treated by the medical system. No one was used to thinking about health in terms of community.”
Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success (2008), pg 9-10
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If failing urban environments like this can’t offer the ability to live (and age) in-place, the value their structure offers will quickly fade. To survive the coming decades, these environments must be reenergized.
ENGAGEMENT
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Villages are membership-driven, grass-roots organizations run by volunteers and paid staff who coordinate access to affordable services including transportation, inspiring health and wellness programs, home repairs, social and educational activities and trips.
www.vtvnetwork.org
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In-Home Services: Members will have access to various care services ranging in a levels of need. Available services include assistance with activities of daily living (ADL’s), personal care, licensed home health, cooking, cleaning, light housekeeping and select errands.
Care Coordination: Members will be assigned a Personal Care Coordinator for their respective services and needs and be available to you and your family 24/7.
Adult Day Care: Members will be offered services provided in a congregate setting for a scheduled number of hours per week, including transportation, meals and activities.
Home Inspection and/or Repairs: Members will have access to accessing home repair services and annual “safety inspections” for their homes to ensure quality living arrangements.
Transportation: Members will have access to limited public
transportation as well as ability to reserve and utilize a member-only rental car service.
Social and Wellness Programs: Members will have access to exercise classes, arts and crafts classes, wellness seminars, speakers, day excursions and discounted use of local YMCA.
Accessibility: Neighborhood infrastructure will react to elder-
friendly and accessible amenities (e.g., curbing, ramps, etc.).
MENU
STRATEGIES
Age Qualified Services…
COLLABORATIVE SERVICES
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STRUCTURE ASSET MAPPING Lifelong village (LV) networks can shape a community development strategy that encourages and eventually relies on diversity, walkabilty, and social interconnection – all pivotal components in incentivizes smart growth and urban renewal.
COMMUNITY APPRAISAL: Gather and review existing community information in an effort to quantify the current state of the network structure.
GAP ANALYSIS: Review asset mappings against LV criteria and analyze what cultural amenities and social/service offerings are currently absent within the existing community.
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In discussing how local municipalities can adopt a LV development model, a select group of government, civic, and community leaders are often gathered to discuss the urgency of these shifting priorities and how they may be addressed.
Working charrette (2007) Photo by MKM.
IMPLEMENTATION
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1. PLACES: Provide an intact, centralized grouping of buildings ,
civic spaces, and people within a walkable urban core that creates a sense of "place" for the community.
2. WALKABILITY: Provide a diverse offering of goods, services,
and cultural amenities within the urban core and surrounding area.
3. WELLNESS: Provide an interconnected network of wellness-
based services and programs that provide and promote a healthy and sustainable lifestyle.
4. SAFETY: Provide an urban core that performs (and is perceived
by the community as) a safe and secure environment.
5. ACCESS: Provide a network of multi-model transportation
and/or accessible pedestrian patterns for all demographics connecting amenities throughout the urban core.
6. BRAND: Provide a place whose civic identity is rooted in the
appreciation and promotion of a quality of life aimed at accommodating a creative, interactive, and intergenerational offering for its residents and businesses.
7. MARKET: Provide a local environment that offers a healthy and
stable economy focused on demographic market demand, innovative collaborations, and local entrepreneurialism.
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LV Gap Analysis NETWORK CRITERIA
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NETWORK OUTPUT INDEPENDENCE The LV network structure is designed to allow residents to not only remain independent as they age, but utilize their activity to improve and interact with the community at large.
LIVING
BUYING
WORKING
VOLUNTEERING
LV
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