The world doesn't stop for older adults.
It just stops designing for them.
I work with individuals, families, and organizations to change that. Through psychology, memory, and design, and 25 years of paying close attention.
About
The thinking
behind the work.
I came to this work the long way.
Through media psychology and social gerontology, and two decades as a licensed therapist working with individuals and families. But also through 25 years of watching what happens when someone arrives at a threshold they didn't see coming. A diagnosis. A parent who suddenly seems smaller. A partner who still knows every word to a song they heard at 22 but can't find their keys.
What I kept noticing wasn't a lack of care. It was a lack of consideration. The environments, the language, the systems. Built for a different person. Not maliciously. Just without thinking.
That gap is solvable. The work of solving it has become my practice.
I call it Threshold Design: building conditions for people to stay fully themselves through change. Not by fixing them. By fixing what's around them.
Ways to Work Together
Four Ways In.
Individuals & Families
Remembering Together
Some families wait for the right moment to capture what matters. Then the moment passes.
Remembering Together creates the structure for that conversation. A guided practice for holding stories, memories, and the small specific things: the music, the humor, the objects that meant something. Before they slip away.
Grounded in reminiscence therapy, narrative psychology, and object work. Not a scrapbook. Not a questionnaire. A reason to sit down together while there is still time.
Available as a self-guided digital experience ($67) or with facilitated support.
Individuals & Families
Guided Support
For people standing at the threshold of something they didn't entirely choose. Your own identity quietly shifting. A parent or partner whose world is changing in ways that are hard to name. Often all of it at once.
Limited sessions. Structured and grounded in clinical practice, but it won't feel like it. It will feel like someone finally has time for the real conversation.
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Consulting
The environments, programs, and systems we build around aging communicate something to the older adults moving through them. Most send the wrong message. Not through malice. Just through not quite thinking it through.
I work with organizations to change what their spaces, language, and experiences communicate, and to build conditions where older adults remain present, valued, and recognized. Age-inclusive experience design, program audits, research partnerships, and advisory work.
Thought Leadership
Speaking & Workshops
I speak where psychology, memory, design, and aging meet. The goal isn't to leave people with more information; it's to leave them with new ways of seeing the people in front of them. The kind that stay.
Available for keynotes, conference sessions, professional development, and practitioner training.
Signature topics include:
ยท The World Isn't Designed Against Older Adults. It's Just Not Designed for Them.
ยท Threshold Design: Building for Presence Across the Arc of Aging
ยท What Remains: Memory, Identity, and the Conditions for a Full Life
ยท Designing for Emotional Legacy: How Values, Ritual, and Sensory Experience Shape What Endures
ยท The Psychology of Belonging Across Generations
Writing
Worth
Considering.
I write about memory, aging, culture, and the small things that turn out to mean something. A film scene. An object left behind. A design choice that nobody questioned.
If you've ever found yourself thinking about aging differently after a completely unrelated conversation. This is for that.
Every conversation starts simply.
Whether you're navigating something personal, looking for a speaker, or wondering what your organization could do differently, start here.
I read everything.
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