2023
The Healthy Home report emphasizes the vital role that our living spaces play in promoting health and well-being throughout different life stages. Homes serve multiple purposes, providing rest, nourishment, and a sense of community, yet they can also become isolating or unsafe environments. As people globally live longer and prefer to age in place, there is a pressing need for homes to evolve into supportive hubs of care. The report outlines how future homes can be designed to protect and enable residents, focusing on adaptability to meet physical, social, and emotional needs. By showcasing innovative case studies and expert insights, The Healthy Home report presents a vision of living spaces that foster a sense of belonging, energy, and fulfillment, ultimately transforming how we think about home and health.
Health and wellbeing are guiding principles for how many of us want to live. Our new report explores how the home can play a more supportive role as a hub of care through life’s stages. Home is a place of many purposes. It’s where we rest and relax, and nourish ourselves and others. We play at home, learn, socialise and exercise.Many of us have a spiritual and emotional connection to the places we call home — they are sanctuaries of respite and safety, where we can pause and reconnect with ourselves.But our homes can also be isolating and lonely places. Some are unsafe and unsanitary, impacted by external forces such as climate events. Others are unyielding to their residents’ physical, social or emotional needs. Around the world, people are living longer and wishing to age in place. This means our homes must do more, transforming into hubs of health and well-being. The Healthy Home report considers how our homes can positively adapt and evolve to support us through the rhythms and flows of life. Through forward-thinking case studies and insights from leading experts we share how the future home can:ProtectEnableThese three aspects form the backbone of The Healthy Home report, unfolding how tomorrow’s dwellings can be designed, furnished, and connected in ways that allow us to feel energised, fulfilled, and have a sense of belonging.