Environments for Aging - Summer 2022 - 9

letter from the editor
Heating up
As summer arrives, the year's hustle and
bustle continues
EDITORIAL
ADVISORY BOARD
Lori Alford
Avanti Senior Living
CC Andrews
Quantum Age Collaborative
David Banta
Associate Partner BKV Group
Laura Busalacchi
Brookdale Senior Living
Vassar Byrd
Rose Villa Senior Living
Margaret Calkins
Ideas Institute
Daniel J. Cinelli
Perkins Eastman
Michelle Clark
AIIM Capital
Andy Coelho
Sunrise Senior Living
Alexis Denton
Perkins Eastman
Mitch Elliott
RDG Planning & Design
Lorraine Hiatt
ImprovAging
Steve Lindsey
Garden Spot Communities
Dean Maddalena
StudioSix5
Eric McRoberts
RLPS Architects
Jane Rohde
JSR Associates Inc.
Jill Schroeder
Pope Architects
Rob Simonetti
SWBR
A
S WE HERE in Cleveland brace for temperatures to creep into the 90s
in coming days, it's looking like summer has officially arrived. And
with it comes one of my favorite trips that I've missed over the past
two years. No, not the beach vacation I'm daydreaming about-but one
that, professionally speaking, is just as satisfying: the program design
team meeting for our 2023 Environments for Aging Conference + Expo.
Into the July sizzle of Washington, D.C., we'll bring our industry friends and partners
together to review presentation proposals and choose those that will make the cut to
create our conference program, a process we've skipped and done over Zoom during
the pandemic. If you've attended the EFA Conference in the past, you know what a large,
robust program it is-and it takes a large, robust amount of work to put it all together.
But I can't tell you how gratifying it is to walk into that room with a (digital) stack of
paper and walk out with a conference.
Speaking of the show, this is our first issue of EFA since meeting in person for the
2022 event in Milwaukee in April. (See our review coverage starting on page 25.) It was a
thrill to see so many of you there and catch up. I can say if there was any common thread
to many of the conversations I had with industry members, it was that you're all crazy
busy. It seems the pandemic pause in project work-if there ever was one-is over, with
new efforts fueled by demand as well as an attempt to beat rising material costs, labor
shortages, and interest rates.
A few of you even said you're at the point of turning down requests for proposals or
focusing on longstanding relationships instead of bringing on new clients.
All of this comes as we're starting to see signs of major changes in senior living
design, where innovative solutions are being discussed more frequently-beyond new
models of care or living environments. I'm starting to see real interest and pursuit of
concepts tied to sustainability and regenerative design, modular and prefabricated
construction, and holistic health and wellness. We'll be keeping an eye on all of this
as we move through the year on the magazine side and prepare to see you again in
Charlotte, N.C., in April 2023.
Meanwhile, if you're looking for a way to explore some of the topics I mentioned,
learn from fellow industry members, or simply earn a few continuing education learning
units, I encourage you to check out our 2022 EFA On Demand program. We took 10
session recordings from the in-person conference in Milwaukee and made them available
to view and earn AIA credits. You can find details at environmentsforaging.com/
on-demand. Meanwhile, I hope you (and I) get to enjoy a bit of a summer slowdown.
JENNIFER KOVACS SILVIS
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
JENNIFER.SILVIS@
EMERALDX.COM
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