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Smart growth and active aging: EPA’s informative new guide

August 21, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably

Tags:
aging, community, neighborhood, seniors, smartercities, smartgrowth, walkability

A major challenge that has come with sprawl over the last half-century has been that growing up, maturing, and growing older has required, more often than not, moving to a new community at each new stage.  This is largely because...continued

It takes a village to age in place

October 17, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably

Tags:
aging, community, completecommunity, neighborhood, seniors, villagemovement

  Late last year, I ran a blog post about how so many of our communities are not configured in a way that allows residents to remain there in their older years.  I know that, in my mother's case, although...continued

Kaid Benfield
Kaid Benfield
Director, Smart Growth Program
Washington, DC
Co-founder, LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system; co-founder, Smart Growth America coalition; author, Once There...
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