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Smaller is better In the Green House model, residents live in houses of just 10 to 12 people, each with their own room and bathroom. By Renee LohmanUpdated April 26, 2021, 3:00 a.m. Email to a Friend Adobe/Globe Staff In Massachusetts and elsewhere across the country, there is insufficient senior housing, and what exists is usually too expensive. Far too often, institutional housing options for elders lead to impersonal living conditions for residents and impersonal working conditions for staff — to the detriment of both. Those working conditions, combined with low pay, have created a s...

Boston: The Silicon Valley of longevity? An older population can serve as the hub for a new kind of innovation cluster. By Joseph Coughlin and Luke YoquintoUpdated February 15, 2021, 12:18 p.m. Email to a Friend In the 1980s, Boston fumbled an opportunity that would haunt it for generations. If, at the dawn of that decade, you were asked to predict where America’s technological epicenter would soon develop, you might have pointed to the area defined by Route 128. There, a leading group of computer developers had set up shop, supported by a web of academic, business, government, and finan...

Boston: The Silicon Valley of longevity? Joseph Coughlin and Luke Yoquinto © Adobe/Globe Staf In the 1980s, Boston fumbled an opportunity that would haunt it for generations. If, at the dawn of that decade, you were asked to predict where America’s technological epicenter would soon develop, you might have pointed to the area defined by Route 128. There, a leading group of computer developers had set up shop, supported by a web of academic, business, government, and financial interests. The country’s high-tech future was being written and, as in revolutions past, it seem...