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No. 31 - Active Adult Communities: Active adult communities (also known as independent living estates/master-planned communities, vary in size from 200 units to 30,000). This DVD includes the larger Pulte/Del Webb estates from the USA sunbelt as well as the newer style specialty communities (Goff), Four Seasons Living (back to close family ties) and mixed generational living (Anthem).

No. 32 - Retirement Resorts: Retirement resort living communities in the USA. These are specially designed master-planned communities on broadacre plots. The features include golf courses, extensive community facilities, walkways and hotel services. The five chosen award-winning retirement resorts come from both the sunbelt and the Four Seasons catchment of Washington DC/New Jersey and New York.
No. 33 - Continuous Care Retirement Communities: The continuous care retirement communities (CCRC) include a mix of independent living, assisted living, nursing home/skilled nursing and dementia care on the same campus. This care-for-life product is the fastest growing segment in the non-independent living sector. The community sizes vary between 500 and 2500 and 40 per cent of new starts are in the north-eastern corner of the USA.

No. 34 - Award Winning Independent Living Architecture: This is age-targeted independent living (not age-restricted). Featuring the outstanding Touchmark at Mount Bachelor in Oregon. These architecturally excellent designs are examples of the best work by USA architects working in the over 55s housing sector in America in 2007.
No .35 - Seniors Apartments: This growing trend to urban infill, build in retail precincts and regenerate high rise, is providing seniors apartments at every level of affordability. This DVD focuses on the top end seniors apartment market. This DVD includes the best 2006-07 design awards in the seniors apartment market.
No. 36 - Assisted Living: High Rise/Low Rise Assisted living comes in both urban high rise and suburban single-storey manifestations. This DVD includes high rise specialist Hyatt and the low rise Sunrise Group, as well as Manhattan specialist (Lott Assisted Living) and three other examples of low rise projects throughout the United States of America.
No. 37 - Seniors Housing Rental Accommodation (1): Award winning seniors housing rental accommodation built over the past six to 12 months. All these design breaking buildings were selected as the best examples of the genre from a catchment of 300 new properties commissioned in the USA in 2007.
No. 38 - Seniors Housing Rental Accommodation (2): A rich variety of seniors affordable rental housing in the USA. This DVD includes resort-style Los Angeles affordability, art deco hotel renovation, assisted living in New York, Chicago Housing Authority design/buildings, Catholic Charities’ re-make of Baltimore (urban renewal), work by the Hispanic Housing Development Corporation and a Cincinnati project for affordable rental housing for seniors.