I Can’t Wait For This To Be Over…
Posted August 27th, 2007 by Bob Fell under the category of General+ Increase Font Size | - Decrease Font Size
This is our last week here, and many people have been asking if I’m looking forward to the immersion part of this project ending.
The answer is a definite… “YES!”
However, the reasons may not be what you’re thinking… yes, it will be wonderful to see my family and sleep in my bed, but it will also be wonderful to take everything we have learned and start to analyze it and apply it. There is only so much that you can do while you are in the throes of fielding research… and I look forward to delving deeper into our findings.
As for leaving here… leaving the people… that is very melancholy for me.
I know I’ll be back… but it will be as a visitor and not a resident. I have truly been a part of Garden Spot Village, and leaving that behind will be a loss on several levels. From hanging out in the lobby, to losing at Bingo… it may be another 20 years before I return to a community such as this and become a resident once again.
In the meantime, we’ll use everything we have learned thus far (and will learn in the next phases of research) to help companies to develop and market better products and services for older adults everywhere.
It’s the least we can do for those here who have taught us so much.
August 30th, 2007 at 10:06 am
So retirement to a community like Garden Spot is something you see yourself doing in 20 years?
I wonder…do most people in their 40s see themselves doing that? 30 days ago, did you see yourself retiring to a community or did it take being immersed in the culture of it all to convince you that it was something you’d like to do?
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