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Watch UDI’s Richard Duncan deliver the keynote address for the San Francisco AIA Designing for Aging Adults Symposium. This two day event was an excellent opportunity to connect the benefits of Universal Design with maintaining our lifestyle and our preferred inter-dependence as we age. Richard discusses social ecology and health outcomes all the way to home technology.
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