Senior Living

We want seniors' years to be imbued with activity, purpose, and interpersonal connection — which means that senior living’s future needs to be...

Here are five strategies for reimagining longevity in an age-inclusive world.

Gensler’s Senior Living leaders share ideas for how we design for today’s increasingly independent, tech-savvy, and diverse population.

The need for affordable and workforce housing was a reality before 2020, but the events of this past year have put a new spotlight on the pressing...

Today’s aging population is tech-savvy, innovative, independent, and diverse. The design of living spaces ranging from retirement communities to...

Gensler’s Design Forecast 2021 explores design strategies for a post-COVID world, offering trends, insights, and practical advice our clients and...

Gensler’s Tama Duffy Day interviews gerontology experts as we look at the current moment as a unique opportunity for change. Stephanie Firestone is a...

The landscape of virtual care has leapt ahead a decade or more amidst the current health crisis, and it is creating a massive shift in operations at...

To respond to the global need for more housing — and more affordable housing — we’re exploring ideas that include co-living spaces, senior living...

In partnership with the Milken Institute's Center for the Future of Aging, Gensler teams from Los Angeles and Washington, DC created speculative...

For tenants, moving is expensive, unsettling, and time-consuming. For owners, high turnover is costly because of repairs and maintenance between...

Building upon our BoomTown framework to understand the essential elements for multigenerational communities.

An exploration into the adverse effects of Hong Kong's population density on senior adults

Making cities healthy is essential to urban planning today. There is no avoiding the research proving how planning impacts our health and quality of...

Phil Esocoff, Gensler’s residential practice area leader, speaks to Tama Duffy Day, Gensler’s firmwide health and wellness practice area leader, on...

Are today’s communities prepared for our rapidly growing, healthy, and savvy aging population?

This blog is part of a series, BoomTown, examining how we design communities for all ages. The evidence is undeniable: the growing number of...

This blog is part of a series, BoomTown, examining how we design communities for all ages. “What if we could rethink the housing options for Boomers...

This blog is part of a series, BoomTown, examining how we design communities for all ages. “As a society, we tend to believe that each generation is...

Image Jeff Sheldon, unsplash.com This blog is part of a series, BoomTown, examining how we design communities for all ages. According to...

Building a framework for residential conversion for underperforming office buildings.

Your zip code is a big prediction of your overall health. Community provided health care like Chicago’s Cook County Central Campus Health Center...

Can design better support today’s active aging population? Today's aging population is anything but traditionally senior.

The Town Hall Apartments at the Center on Halsted This past Sunday, hundreds of thousands marched jubilantly in Chicago’s Gay Pride Parade past the...

The Center on Halsted Senior Housing, as conceived by Gensler. We’ve all heard the term “aging in place.” It typically refers to the ability to...