RMV 20 Barbara Knickerbocker Beskind: You Can Design Aging

Barbara has been designing her life for almost a century, with a
stint at global design firm IDEO starting when she was just
93-years-old. After seeing founder David Kelley featured on an
episode of 60 Minutes, Barbara wrote to the company offering to
help design for aging and low-vision populations. Hailing from
the field of occupational therapy, after training through the
U.S. Army’s War Emergency Course, and serving for 20 years before
retiring as a major in 1966, Barbara’s own experience with
macular degeneration led her to design glasses to help her and
others with the condition. In this episode of Results May
Vary, Barbara shares her fascinating story of personal
reinvention, and how rather than allowing her illnesses and
advanced age to hold her back, she simply used them as new
constraints to redesign her life around.