Real Estate tra innovazione e accessibilità: senior housing come strategia d’intervento sostenibile

The growing attention to issues related to Senior Living, is changing the asset class paradigm of many real estate investment institutions. The interest in this sector means that many asset management companies set up ad hoc real estate funds whose contribution can broaden the range of action for urban regeneration interventions: the Senior Housing, in accordance with the principles of the Silver Economy for an active and conscious aging thus becomes a strategy that can be pursued for redevelopment. If in Europe much has been invested in residences exclusively - or almost exclusively - for the elderly, in Italy the theme of "exclusivity", total or partial, converges almost always in residential typologies delegated mostly to take place of Hospitals, like the RS or the RSA. The concept of "elder" should be expanded and not only linked to its state of health: first of all because the spread of healthier lifestyles and greater prevention are contributing decisively to the raising of the average age and to enlargement of the range of self-sufficiency and independence, in secundis because one is never old enough - or young enough - to need treatment, a sign that there is no precise moment in which it is possible to establish first which treatments can be used and for how long. The study of some case studies in France allows us to shed light on two fundamental aspects of the production process that dominates them: design and management. The identification of the strengths of these consolidated strategies, together with the analysis of the guidelines of real estate investment policies, can activate, in Italy, new building processes capable of satisfying both the demand of the specific user with functional models and the needs of investors with replicable management models.