An overarching direction of this project is, perhaps, to follow the guidance in Jorge Luis Borges' very short story "On Exactitude in Science" which describes an imaginary empire where the map is larger than the territory. See:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science
- http://languagescraps.blogspot.com/2008/09/borges-short-story-relating-to-foucault.html
This project if ever finished would be too large and too out of date to be useful. At the same time it may well provide a framework for tackling selected and specific aspects living, working and managing a facility such as ours. So, dear reader, get ready to bite your tongue, gird your loins and roll your eyes.
Here are 21 goals for the Heritage on the Marina to achieve by 2030.
These goals, targets and metrics follow the logic and pattern established in the The 17 Goals developed by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. Fingers crossed we can do the same.
The goals are divided into a trichotomy of seven goals each. The trichotomy headings are location, person & organization or knowing, being & doing.
The targets and metrics of the goals are defined as one would define a Bill of Materials or Bill of Quantities - exhaustive documents that where every material, part and labor-component is itemized.
Each trichotomy is further divided into seven goals. Each trichotomy includes goals that refer to the "beauty" and the "security or sustainability" of the goals in that section. They exist in order to indicate that best and the worst aspects of the other goals may require extra effort or thought in order to surpass merely meeting or satisfying the conditions of the other goals.
{Further revisions may double-click into all the aspects briefly covered above.}
This section covers:
- Things that have a position such as latitude & longitude or URL
- Place, locale, premises & personal spaces
- The physical, the what's there;
- The Internet, the extended reality; the metaphysical;
- Connections and communications between each of these
The Earth, our country, our state; the internet, extended reality; the celestial; the universe
Government agencies, major organizations, standards setting oboes
Think of all the organizations we relate to CMS, CDC, NIH, IRS, CA DPH, FTB
Also Leading Age, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Yelp
Also TouchTown, fax machines, loudspeaker systems and pile of paper
We want to:
- Be a "shining light" retirement community
- 5 stars / Win "beauty" contests
- Set examples and templates, schemas & protocols that others may build upon
- Shares stats, guidance and processes
16 Peace, justice and strong institutions
- 16.6 Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels
- 16.7 Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels
- 16.8 Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance
- 16.10 Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements
- 16.b Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development
17 Partnerships for the goals
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17.7 Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed
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17.8 Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology
County and city; neighborhood and streets
We are good neighbors, customers and partners in our city and neighborhood
We support neighborhood merchants, shops and organizations
- Member business district association
- Exchanges with other continuing care facilities
- Discounts, lists of wonderful providers
Add hospitals - Sutter, Kaiser, UCSF - and all the local health providers
The public spaces where we live and work
Facilities, the public spaces?
- Web cams
- Accessibility for handicapped
- Gathering places
- Library, Chapel, Dining
- Art, music, exercise, hobbies
- Hairdressing, barber, podiatrist
- Visiting x-ray
- indoor pandemic access visiting areas
- Privacy, meetings, transport
- Staff areas
- Kitchens, offices, locker rooms
- Service areas
Gardens
- Beautiful entrances on all three sides
- All three entrances: accessible and handsome
- lights to front of house
- White noise beeps only / Please be quiet sign
- Flowers in parking
- Pretty back-of-house
- Sculpture garden
- Visits
- Residents allotment - in Fort Mason?
Apartments and offices
Bathrooms
- Bars and poles on all four sides of the showers
- Super non-slip strips
- Two-voice recognition
- Hot water in less than a minute everywhere
Bedroom
- Remote control or add driven heating and lighting. Curtains?
- Close-up mirrors above basin
- More sprinklers? Fire prevention
- "Wood" floors
Closets
- lights work on motion sensors
- Command coat hooks
- Container store discounts All closets have clothes hooks, safe deposit box
Heating and Ventilating
- Warmth even with fresh air
- Very adjustable windows
- Air filters?
- Quiet
Bathrooms: non-slip + extra non-slip Showers have rails on three sides / floors are absolutely non-slip Fans? close up mirrors Storage Voice activated help + push button available everywhere Floors are cleanable by washing by normal housekeeping staff remote controls for all lights and shades and heating All communication digital No Coax no RJ15 All windows may be filtered Opened and closed remotely?
Offices Apartments Voice activated help + push button available everywhere Floors are cleanable by washing by normal housekeeping staff remote controls for all lights and shades and heating All communication digital No Coax no RJ11
All windows may be filtered Opened and closed remotely?
Bathroom Showers have rails on three sides / floors are absolutely non-slip Fans? close up mirrors
Closets
Library of Container store parts available Staff and residents Container store discount
Closets lights work on motion sensors All closets have clothes hooks, safe deposit box
Birds and the bees, the flowers and the trees
Nature and parks, transport, infrastructure
- Member Fort Mason org
- Bird watching, walking
- Transport
Trees and Plants have placards with their names Islands around Oak in parking lot is planted All three pedestrian entrances are accessible and attractive "Back of house" is not ugly North side View from Bay Street and Laguna is attractive Pickup and deliveries are requested to be quiet Trucks have white noise back up warning sounds Bay Street entrance is attractive and accessible Building is lit at night
noticeably effective
attracts admiration
- Art on walls is moved around changed
- Art classes
- Pianos tuned
- Singing and choir
- Chapel pews replaced with theater seats / move around
- Testing procedures and drills
- fire drills
- emergency generators
- backup plans
- malware protection
- building maintenance
- Contingency plans
- legal protections and safeguards
- Insurance
- thinking of future self
- Letters or messages to my older self
This section covers:
- You
- People as individuals interacting with other individuals
- “People” is assumed to include residents, staff, admin, regulators and other parties with an ongoing binding relationship (Morrison for example)
- People you care about, friends ^ family, people you are concerned about
We seek good people
- Residents and staff have a say in the criteria
- Residents and staff have a say in selecting new residents
- Intimacy and sharing are encouraged
- New residents have special treatment
Som of us are different some of us become different after a while here
- Embrace diversity
- Accepts affluent and needy
- Shares and exchanges with communities of color, LGBT
- Some apartments allocated to former staff members
- We have exchanges with other facilities
We are not just a clump of people; we are residents & staff, guides and guided
- BoD includes residents, staff and regulators
- Adapt the gardens so they become a sculpture garden that people visit
- Recycle the art in the halls and in storage
- Paintings and furniture moved around every year - every hall is a curated gallery
- Beauty committee ;-)
- Food, heat, Light are all OK
This section covers:
Organizations
- Groups of people doing things together
- Collaborations
- The effort, the work, the support & service people provide
Activities & preventative services - assisted living, PT
- Residents take turns talking with quiet residents
- Hearing aid support
- Feeling: anybody allowed in is OK
- People feel supported, not lonely
- Organic available
- A vegetarian could live here
- More fiber
- Carpets cleaned every year
- Hoarding therapist every year
- Internet ~ 4 nines uptime ~ 24/7 response
- Regular reports on issues
- have good IT
- Health plans, 401K
- Able to express opinion and be heard
- Bonding
- Online connection between residents and health staff
- Hearing review every year
- Coaching for fitness, diet, and mind
- Good contact: hotM and GP/PCP
- Dr in the house
- No paperwork
- flexible levels of care
- 100% vaccination
- Things are run so well that that they are an example for others to follow
- Processes are available as templates for others to use
- Unwritten Constitution
- Checklists, manuals and lists of procedures are available, up to date and followed happily