NORD Architects   France   Conceived as a village, this healthcare center in Dax – in France’s Landes department – is designed specifically for people afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. The objective of the project is to improve the quality of life and the overal

Mae Architects    United Kingdom   This senior daycare is part of a complex of listed buildings of Morden College, which harbors a community of elderly people. Founded in 1695, Morden College is located in Blackheath Park, in Southeast London. Seeking to address the problem of lonelin

Studio Jan Vermeulen Tom Thys Architecten    Belgium   A fruit of a collaborative endeavor of the Brussels-based firms Studio Jan Vermeulen and Tom Thys Architecten, this assisted-living facility for dementia patients is located on the outskirts of the Belgian city of Kortrijk, in the province of West Fl

Arquitectura Produccions Pau Vidal Vivas Arquitectos   Spain   At Alí Bei 100-102 stands a building containing 49 apartments for senior citizens and 10 temporary accommodations for people in danger of social exclusion. Promoted by the Barcelona City Hall’s Institut de l’Habitage i Rehabilitació (IMHAB), it occup

SUMA/ Issei Suma   Japan   Combining different functions and suggesting with its form the idea of a primitive hut or chapel, this small center for older people has been designed using innovative ergonomic strategies. 

Sergison Bates architects   Belgium   Using familiar materials and evoking the vernacular building types found in the area, the home constains a service center, a day care center, and 145 assisted-living apartments.

Dietger Wissounig Architekten   Austria   A large prefabricated volume built with larch wood  contains 104 rooms distributed in eight independent communities that share gardens and atriums, and open up to a shared plaza. 

Guedes Cruz Arquitectos    Portugal   Laid out with a sober modulation and inserted in a labyrinthine pattern evocative of a kasbah, the houses and main support building address the needs of elderly couples. 

Óscar Miguel Ares   Spain   The conventional concept of home for the elderly is replaced here by that of a village protected from the harsh landscape of Castile by a wall of concrete blocks.

Bonell & Gil Peris + Toral arquitectes   Spain   Distribuyéndose en tres cuerpos posados sobre un zócalo de usos mixtos, las viviendas organizan una parte de su programa en torno a un núcleo y abren el resto a una terraza. 

Scientific American   Claudia Wallis   In the senior community where my mom lives, death is a frequent visitor. When we talk about a recent loss, the story is often the same: her neighbor fell, and things got worse from there. Falls are the seventh-leading cause of death for adults aged 6

Paz Martín   From adapted homes to collective residences through senior or assisted housing, there are many living models that give a dignified response to the special needs of people in the twilight of life.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   We do not need senior housing only: we need cities for all ages. The population aging and hedonistic individualism of post-industrial society have fractured the links that guaranteed the cohesion of traditional structures through mutual help. ‘Parent