New Housing LIN Case Study looks to Japan for lessons on intergenerational approaches to later living

In this Housing LIN Case Study (No. 184), Siri Zanelli, Founding Partner at Collective Works, reflects on a recent research trip to three care settings in Japan, from a care home with a street-facing sweet shop to a day-care hub beside a bamboo forest and a community centre built into a town square.

She highlights overlapping functions, intergenerational placemaking and a reassessment of who gives and receives care, and asks how UK housing and care buildings could open up to the communities around them, creating more connected, healthier places for everyone in the community.