Seniors

  • Age in Place
    30
    Sep

    Aging-in-Place: What Today’s Trends Mean for Baby Boomers

    Ninety percent of older Americans would prefer to live in their own home as they age, according to AARP. The strong desire to remain in one’s own home can generally be attributed to place attachment, or a deep connection to home. Place attachment describes a special bond between people and specific places. Many older adults have […]

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  • Chrysalis Award Logo
    11
    May

    Glickman Receives 2015 Chrysalis National Award for Universal Design… and Helps a Northern Virginia Couple Make their Condo More Livable

    Glickman Design Build was truly honored to receive the 2015 Chrysalis National Award for Universal Design for this truly unique bathroom renovation. The client has ALS, a progressive neurodegenerative disease, and therefore needed to convert a basically brand new 18th floor condominium bathroom into an accessible bathroom. The client was away for the duration of […]

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  • In Law Suite Addition
    07
    May

    What to Look for in an In-Law Suite

    Over the years, society has gone through regular changes. There was a time when multiple generations lived under one roof, so the ages in the home could range from babies to seniors. As people moved to the suburbs and families became more nuclear, this changed. However, the trend is re-emerging as people move their aging […]

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  • 03
    Jan

    Building a Multigenerational Home: What You Need To Know

    More than 51 million families in America live in multigenerational homes, which has more people considering adding on to their homes to make room for parents moving in. This is a trend that is definitely becoming more and more common as less people choose to move into a nursing home. In 1970 26% of people […]

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  • 07
    Apr

    New lower level in-law suite works for owners as primary living space

    How can you tell when an in-law suite is outperforming the usual requirements? Well, for starters, when the owners themselves decide to occupy the new accommodation as their primary living space. Such was the recent choice of the Saads, two seniors who started investigating options for retrofitting their three-level home when Mrs Saad transitioned from […]

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  • 12
    Mar

    Aging in Place Home Featured in the Washington Post

    ‘Aging-in-place’ features for the home gain higher profile as baby boomers get older Edgewater home is built to accommodate couple as they age: When Tom and Susie McSweeny built their Edgewater, Md., house in 2013, they asked their architect to incorporate “aging-in-place” features — including an elevator, wide doorways to accommodate a wheelchair and a flat, […]

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