This grew because a seed was planted.
This article was produced by Evan Porter on September 8th and it features the work of Jean Makesh who is the CEO of Assisted Living from Ohio. Take a look, it's worth the short read and I think it's fantastic!
http://www.upworthy.com/one-man-turned-nursing-home-design-on-its-head-when-he-created-this-stunning-facility
About two weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about the Perfect Trifecta: An Aging Population, Medical Cannabis and Cryptocurrency and posted it on Steemit.
In it, I suggested that based on the statistics facing North America in the next 25 years, 60 million North Americans will be over the age of 65 and that we will have a growing population segment who will have assisted living, medical and financial needs.
Their biggest concerns will be controlling inflammation-based disease and having enough money to afford to live their remaining days peacefully, comfortably and safely.
I think a retirement facility that is designed to allow people to live, like they do now before assisted care is needed, in single family dwellings is the way of the retirement future. My hat goes off to Jean Makesh for turning retirement facility design on its head.
I would leap-frog off his design and build a square facility so that each unit could have access to a secure court-yard with grass and gardens. This would let residents grow gardens and even their own medical cannabis which would be used as medicine to effectively treat disease and provide pain-relief as needed. (While, also keeping people safe and from wandering off in confusion or fear.)
I would also ensure that each unit was suitably outfitted with computer access so that all the residents could access the internet whenever they wanted to and that all of these things could be paid for by a cryptocurrency, like Steemit.
I can envision a wonderful sense of community, where neighbours happily live side by side, have the level of care they need, have a hand in growing their own medicine and if they run out of money to pay for it, they can simply blog on Steemit to settle their bill.
It's a place I'd like to retire to, when the time comes. I have planted the seed.