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Max Winters is a planner and architect at Perkins Eastman and has established himself as a thought leader in its senior living practice. Working with senior care providers in the United States and Canada, he has been a trusted advisor in the development of both long-term visions for their communities through strategic and master planning and the realization of those visions through the built environment. He has completed design and implementation of both new building work and the repositioning of existing communities across all pieces of the senior care continuum.

Max is also an emerging voice in the conversation about environments for older adults and their relationship to how our society views aging. He has presented at regional and national venues about topics, including place-making for community-based approaches to aging, the transformative role technology will play in the future of aging, and moving the needle on dementia specific environments. Through this involvement with Perkins Eastman’s Research in Practice group, he has recently been published as the co-author of Missing Main Street, a publication based on his travel fellowship to Hogewey Dementia Village in the Netherlands, as well as supporting research about the role of self, nostalgia, and spatial archetypes in creating environments for the next generation of older adults living with dementia. He is also the co-host of the Shaping Dementia environments podcast offering insightful conversations with disruptive operators, policy shapers, and designers to examine how new thinking is shaping the places people living with dementia.