Getting older? It’s trendy
November 28th, 2011
When you think “trendy,” older people might not be the first thing you think of. Yet, Thomas P. Montgomery, Vice President for GLMV Architecture and a specialist in designing environments for the elderly, can tell you that old age today is not what it used to be. As the baby boomer generation (those born between 1946 and 1964) closes in on retirement, the United States will experience the largest elderly population it has ever seen. Currently, one in four Americans is part of this demographic group, and boomers are expected to make as large an impact on long-term retirement living as …
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Where home is really . . . homey
October 24th, 2011
Thomas P. Montgomery’s professional future may have been decided when he was very young during visits to a nursing home where his grandmother lived. “They weren’t great places back then,” Montgomery recalls. As an adult, he would change all that. Montgomery, Vice President of GLMV Architecture, specializes in designing environments for the elderly that allow residents to make themselves completely at home. In the past, long-term residential facilities housed large groups of people in one space and were heavily centralized. “There was one huge dining room and one huge common room,” Montgomery recalls. “Residents often had to have a roommate. …
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