Old folks need to be coaxed

If you design 10,000 homes a year for retiring baby-boomers to downsize to, those homes typically house 15,000 people. But the baby-boomers move out of four and five-bed houses that can then house 40,000 to 60,000 people. There is no other way to get such capacity without the public sector shovelling in cash. The problem is that in most areas there aren’t any homes designed for seniors that will tempt baby-boomers to downsize — we need architects to create new models that will.

David Birkbeck,
Design for Homes