Housing for Older Adults in Newton:
Challenges and Opportunities

Monday, Oct. 28 at 7pm

Hybrid Event: Congregation Dorshei Tzedek/Second Church
60 Highland St, West Newton & live-streaming on Zoom

Many older adults in Newton face the choice between remaining in a home that no longer suits them and moving away from their community of friends and family.

While housing matters to the health and wellbeing of all people, aging can bring specific challenges: costs, accessibility, and access to services.

Newton residents, Lizbeth Heyer and Jennifer Molinsky, both experts in this field, will discuss these challenges and ways to meet them with a wider range of innovative housing options that fit the diverse preferences and needs of the city’s older residents.

There will also be time for a Q & A.

Jennifer Molinsky is the director of the Housing an Aging Society Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard. Her research explores the housing challenges facing an aging population, including affordability, accessibility, and connections between housing, services, and health.

Lizbeth Heyer is the president of 2Life Communities. Since joining 2Life she has led their growth and innovation initiatives developing and modernizing more than 1,000 subsidized apartments and launching Opus, their new middle-market housing in Newton.