The Minka
A tiny home designed for senior living
Dr Bill Thomas is well known for taking on traditional nursing home care through initiatives such as the Green House model. Now, he has introduced two new concepts with the goal of helping people avoid institutional care as they age.
At the recent Aging 2.0 conference in San Francisco in November 2017, Thomas formally introduced Minka. A Minka is a small home built through modular construction, enabled with technologies to help seniors and others who need support to live independently.
These small dwellings could become a cornerstone of larger housing clusters that Thomas is calling MAGIC. The acronym stands for multi-ability/multi-generational inclusive communities. The first MAGIC development is currently in the works, to be constructed at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville.
This article by Tim Mullaney describes the concept in more detail, and includes a link to the Minka initiative.