Designing Homes and Neighborhoods for an Aging Population Agenda

8:00 – 9:00 am   
Registration
Coffee, tea, juice, and light refreshments provided.

9:00 – 9:10 am   
Welcoming Remarks

• Chase W. Rynd, president and executive director, National Building Museum
• Kelly Caffarelli, The Home Depot Foundation

9:10 – 9:30 am
An Aging America

• Jack Rowe, MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society

9:30 – 10:00 am  
Keynote – New Visions for Aging In Place
In the U.S. today there are more people over the age of 60 than people under the age of 15. Indeed, the oldest old are the fastest-growing segment of the population. As a nation, are we prepared to meet the growing housing and medical needs of this demographic while ensuring freedom of choice to age in the homes and communities they have chosen?

• The Honorable Henry Cisneros, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, executive chairman of CityView

10:00 – 11:30 am 
Policies For Success
At a time when entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid face increasing budgetary pressures, what are the new financial strategies for aging in place? What are the national, state, and local policies needed? And how do we build bi-partisan support among policy makers and constituencies to effect the national change needed?

• Fernando Torres-Gil, AARP Board Foundation; director, UCLA Center for Policy Research on Aging, moderator
• Nancy A. LeaMond, AARP, executive vice president, State and National Group
• Estelle Richman, senior advisor to the secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Ilene Rosenthal, deputy secretary, Maryland Department of Aging
• Robyn Stone, executive director, LeadingAge Center for Applied Research and senior vice president of research

11:30 am – 1:00 pm  
Networking Lunch and Book Launch with formal book signing

• Laura Carstensen, founding director, Stanford Center on Longevity, professor of psychology, Stanford University; Henry Cisneros; and other book authors

1:00  – 1:30 pm   
Aging in Place: A Mayoral Perspective
How can local governments enable adults to afford appropriate housing services and community life as they age in place?

• A conversation with the Honorable Ron Littlefield, mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Jess Zimbabwe, executive director, Rose Center for Public Leadership, moderator  

1:30 – 3:00 pm 
Design Solutions for Aging in Place
Retrofitting existing homes, affordable housing, suburban retrofits, healthy communities, and universal design strategies provide options for aging in place. Panelists provide real-world, design-focused solutions across a variety of scales.

• Christopher Leinberger, visiting fellow, Brookings Institution, moderator 
• Ellen Dunham Jones, professor, Architecture Program, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Matthias Hollwich, principal, Hollwich Kushner (HWKN)
• Christine Nocar, vice president of construction management, National Church Residences

3:00 – 3:15 pm  
Closing remarks

• Chase W. Rynd, president and executive director, National Building Museum

Support for House & Home and related education programming is provided by The Home Depot Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Hanley Wood, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Andersen Corporate Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, MASCO Corporation Foundation, and AARP, among others.