Monday, July 25, 2011

A transportation solution for an aging population

Friends:  See below for an innovative program for getting around the mountains when we all get too cranky and old and safe to drive.  This is culled from a longer article that appeared in The Financial Times on July 22, 2011.

Here's the link to the article:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/1fed1eee-b34b-11e0-9af2-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1T4PvLGkx

Here's the link to the ITNAmerica program described in the article.

http://www.itnamerica.org/

1 comment:

  1. Joe - thanks for sharing this. Understanding first hand the challenge of elder care, I have started researching alternatives. Came across this book http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/alone_and_invisible_no_more which has some really good ideas. The gray tsunami is coming and our current system can't handle it financially or humanely.

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