Morgen:Rapport from 5 March: Building for the care of the future
March 5, 2024
Under the title "Planning and building for the care of the future. How flexible, intergenerational and sustainable buildings can contribute to quality of life in old age", Jean-Daniel Strub, ethicist at the Neumünster Institute, discusses with Andrea Grünenfelder the question of what retirement and care facilities of the future should look like.
How can we know today how people will want to live in old age tomorrow? What does it mean to design living space consistently with people's needs in mind and to take more "fragility" into account in planning? And to what extent are even very small measures sometimes enough to make a decisive contribution to a better quality of life for residents?
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