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The houses we’ll live in

Accessibility and adaptability

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Robert A. Harootyan, MS, MA, is Senior Research Associate in the Demographics and Trend Analysis Department of the American Association of Retired Persons, and was director of AARP’s former New Roles in Society program. Previously, he was a senior analyst at the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress where he directed studies ofTechnology and Aging in America andLife-Sustaining Technologies and the Elderly.

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Harootyan, R.A. The houses we’ll live in. Ageing International 22, 47–53 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02681067

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