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Joe
D’Ambrosio,
Director
of Health
Innovation And
Sustainability,
Institute for
Sustainable
Health &
Optimal Aging,
University
of Louisville
and aging populations in a concept similar
to Riverport Landings.
“There is an intergenerational
movement in
Kentucky. We are looking
for shared performance
in well-being on campus
environments where single
parents can interact
with older adults for
extended family ties, for
example,” said Joe
D’Ambrosio, director of
health innovation and
sustainability at the University
of Louisville’s
Institute for Sustainable
Health & Optimal Aging.
“With the Industrial
Revolution came segregating
older adults into their own communities,
but this model is outdated,”
D’Ambrosio said. “People are living longer
and can share knowledge and wisdom
to younger generations. Shared
space and responsibilities for the neighborhood
make for educational conversations
about what we can do in making
a cultural shift for optimal aging and
connection possible.”
The UofL Institute plans to push the
AARP “age-friendly” Louisville initiatives
forward.
Riverport Landings is financed by
Redstone Tax Exempt Funds LLC, PNC
Bank, the Kentucky Housing Corp. and
Develop Louisville, which is a division of
Metro Louisville government. The city
will manage a 2.5-acre public park in
the midst of multifamily dwellings,
senior apartments, a pool and a Family
Scholar House apartment complex
model for aspiring single parents and
their children. There will be 10 multifamily
buildings with 240 garden style,
one- to three-bedroom apartments in
addition to senior apartments.
Family Scholar House’s state model
Family Scholar House, based in Louisville
but working statewide, has a mission
to end the cycle of poverty and
transform communities by empowering
families and youth to succeed in education
and achieve life-long self-sufficiency.
It is contributing private
fundraising dollars from its own
resources for the Riverport Landings
project. This is Family Scholar House’s
fifth project in Louisville; others are in
Pikeville and Covington.
Riverport Landings will offer a commercial
area where doctors’ offices and
other service providers can be on campus,
and will include an education
building for hosting various services and
an art studio.
Since the 1970s, U.S. senior populations
have been encouraged to “seek out
their own” in communities that cater specifically
to them, but these retirement villages
often did not provide the kind of
support found in a melting pot environment
where multiple generations interact
in daily living, said Dr. Anna Faul, executive
director of the University of Louisville’s
Institute for Sustainable Health and
Optimal Aging.
The Institute will be the host organization
for Louisville’s AARP Age-
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Lexington Convention Center
Featuring a talk from
Ben Chandler
former U.S. Congressman,
Ky 6th District
President and CEO,
Foundation for a
Healthy Kentucky
“Kentucky Health:
Moving the Needle”
For more information about the
event, call 859.257.8746 or
1.800.284.6407 or
register online at
Friendly City initiative and will oversee
the development and implementation
of an action and evaluation plan. This
may include alterations to simple public
systems like street crossing timers
that currently allow about 12 seconds.
A person over 75 who is still mobile
often needs more time, Faul said.
Kentucky is part of a national evolution
in thinking.
“Equity involves trying to understand
and give people what they need to enjoy
full, healthy lives. Equality, in contrast,
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