| Dr. Leon A.
Pastalan, PhD Leon A. Pastalan, PhD, is a Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Michigan and Director of the National Center on Housing and Living Arrangements for Older Adults. Dr. Pastalan is recognized internationally for his work in the field of Environment and Aging. He served as Editor for the JOURNAL OF HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY from 1983 to 2001. He is the author of numerous studies, monographs, books and manuals that serve the needs of professionals working with the elderly. In addition, he has served as a consultant to the Michigan State Housing Development Authority, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and a number of private retirement communities such as Lake Pointe Woods in Sarasota, Florida, the Air Force Enlisted Widows Village in Shalimar, Florida and Liberty Woods Senior Housing Cooperative in Spring Lake, Michigan. Dr. Pastalan is playing a key role in the development of college/university sponsored retirement communities. He currently is serving as a consultant to University Commons, a retirement community on the University of Michigan Campus, Holy Cross Village at Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana and Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan. He and Benyamin Schwarz co-authored the book entitled: UNIVERSITY LINKED RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES, Haworth Press, New York, 1994. His latest book is entitled: HOUSING CHOICES AND WELL-BEING: PROPER FIT, Haworth Press, New York, 2001. |
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Mr.
Frank Macknick Frank Macknick is Director of Marketing with the National Center on Housing and Living Arrangements for Older Adults. Frank has worked in retirement housing development, marketing and operations since 1969. Two recent college-affiliated clients are Holy Cross Village at Notre Dame and Hillsdale Village. Earlier he formed a company that worked with clients in 42 states. These included retirement housing, nursing homes, assisted living residences and Alzheimer's care facilities. He has assisted clients from the idea stage through planning, financing, architecture, construction, marketing and operations. |
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Dr.
Tien-Chien Tsao, PhD Tien-Chien Tsao, PhD, is Senior Research Associate with the National Center on Housing and Living Arrangements for Older Adults at the University of Michigan. Dr. Tsao received his PhD in Architecture from the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan in 2003, where he also received Master of Science in 1997 and Master of Architecture with distinction degrees in 1995. Dr. Tsao has been a registered architect since 1991 and has worked as Senior Architectural Designer for SmithGroup, Inc. in Detroit, Michigan from 2000 to 2003. Currently he works for The Collaborative Inc. (TCI), a reknowned architecture firm based in Toledo, OH, and focuses on a a variety of campus projects. His research addresses the challenges of the mutually empowering relationship between the individual and the environment. The two major areas of research interests, workplace and aging and environment have provided empirical examples that shape his vision of utilizing Architectural Design to initiate a reciprocally empowering dynamic between the person and the environment, which ultimately leads to the goal in which people and their environment grow together. He has worked with Dr. Leon A. Pastalan on the area of college/university linked retirement communities for many years, and has provided related consulting services for interested colleges and universities such University Commons at the University of Michigan, Holy Cross Village at Notre Dame, and Intergenerational Village at Hillsdale College. He is also the recipient of several grants and fellowships such as Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, US Department of Housing and Urban Development and Dissertation Grant, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the University of Michigan. He and his wife and three children live in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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