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Welcome To Our Home.
Welcome To Your Future.

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Residential Design For Aging In Place. The definitive guide to make a home a safe, secure and healthy place to live no matter age or ability. Authors Drue Lawlor, FASID and Michael A. Thomas, FASID have created this special book to help designers, architects, builders and home owners make the right choices to help sustain independence.

For more info or to contact our firm, The Design Collective Group, just CLICK HERE. 

Life Is More Than Just Staying At Home As We Age.

It's About Maintaining Our Independency. 

Aging People

No matter our heritage, culture or beliefs, or where we live in the world, there is one thing we all have in common with each other.

WE ALL GROW OLDER.

But that doesn't mean that we have to make sacrifices in how we live.  And while growing older may present challenges to our lifestyle, there are also opportunities to maintain our independency by planning ahead.

One key opportunity to an independent life is creating a home or work environment that will help us to maintain our chosen lifestyle, keep us engaged, a place that supports us, comforts us, keeps us safe no matter age or ability.  And the process of designing one's home to accomplish those objectives is much more than the installation of a grab bar.  Design for Aging In Place is about the design aesthetics and the process to create environments that will span a lifetime of use.  With the appropriate elements in place, spaces will remain flexible to the needs of its occupants while ensuring maximum mobility over time. 
 
THERE IS MORE TO DESIGNING AN AGE~FRIENDLY RESIDENCE.
  
It is about creating living and work spaces that look like homes and offices, not institutions or care facilities. Design for aging in place is as much a philosophy as technique,  one in which the designs are attractive yet the details that support one's independent life remain transparent to the untrained eye. And working with a trained, experienced professional can make this attainable as well as affordable, providing a return on the investment considering all other available options.  Consider the opportunities to design a home that is enduring in style and function Consider building a foundation for the future that supports and comforts you thru the years. Now consider working with a firm that can help you achieve all that and more.  


•    Click HERE to learn more about how we help people all over the country create well designed living and working environments that keep them safe and secure for a lifetime of enjoyment, no matter age or ability. 
 The Design Collective Group, Inc.  

√ CLICK HERE to read the Consumer Reports interview with Michael Thomas about Aging in Place.