Tips From The Top

There’s so much about the world and pollution we can’t control: air quality, lighting, sound—the list of unhealthy overstimulation goes on. But our homes are a different story. Our homes are already places that support our health in many ways: we come together with family and friends, to relax, recreate, and even work. And now, smart home technology gives us the tools to control our environments to support our overall mental, emotional and physical wellness.

We’ve talked at length about air quality, and in future blogs we’ll go in-depth about the importance and complexity of audio health. Today, we’ll focus on lighting and a wellness topic of increasing awareness: aging-in-place.

Lighting is one of the first choices to make in any home, and an integrated smart home can provide circadian-effective and human-centric lighting to not only make our homes beautiful and fitting to the activity within, but to support our overall biological rhythms and needs. This goes beyond mimicking daylight in the morning and dusk in the evening; this means that the visual aesthetic of lighting designed specifically for your unique home space is appealing and supports an overall feeling of open spaciousness. In the same way that landscape architecture takes its cues from nature, indoor smart lighting finds its roots in the qualities and design that is most naturally appealing to the human needs for comfort, security, and well-being.

Our lighting design experts are attuned to the nuances of human needs as well as our clients’ unique home spaces—we go above and beyond the smart home lighting design to embrace our clients’ total health and well-being in every custom lighting design project, whether it’s a media room or a backyard patio or an entire home’s integrated system designed with our primary home automation platform Savant or one of our favorite lighting innovators Lutron.

Many of our clients are reaching an age when they’re starting to plan for retirement and how they want to live out their final years in comfort and security. While the sixties and seventies can still be an optimal time for travel and vitality, after age eighty, we likely will need greater healthcare support. For many of us, that means making plans to “age-in-place” in our homes.

Smart home innovators are coming up with some amazing new technology to support aging in place in the integrated home. Using sensor data, systems are now able to collate information about the home activities that can alert caregivers and family members if there are health-related problems. This supports the home owners living at home independently and gives family the peace of mind that if and when health problems arise, they will know and can respond accordingly. In addition, there are smaller developments that can ease and accommodate daily activities, making it not only practical but preferable to spend our final years in the homes we love and cherish.

To learn more about how you can make your home an oasis of wellness, call us at Jackson Hole AV. We’d love to discuss the possibilities.