As we age, things change.

Our mobility shifts and memories fade.

For some, that could mean less time outside.

But something at Friendship Village is changing that narrative.

I feel how smooth it is though.

Making the outside more accessible to older adults.

It is.

Oh, there's a bump.

It's wonderful.

I'm out of my apartment and I'm a little bit disabled and I got into this and it's a smooth ride and it's just freedom.

Freedom.

That's what Joan, a resident at Friendship Village Sunset Hills, kept telling me as she rode around the campus on one of their new tri-shaws.

A three-wheeled, partly motor-powered trike, and the village calls it their "time machines," taking restricted residents back in time with new scenery, smells, and sensations.

I really love the mountains.

And up there we play bocce ball.

There are games up there.

It really has made it more joyful, just getting out and getting in this cart and just going, going, going.

And it's absolutely wonderful for me to be out and see the trees and the brook here and everything around here that you really don't get to see when you're like me and stuck inside so much.

Friendship Village purchased the two tri-shaws after visiting a conference last year.

They hold a maximum of two people in the front seat and it's even wheelchair accessible, making it easy for almost any resident at the village to enjoy the ride.

And for them and their family, it's hard to want to get off.

You're not going to get me out of here.

Let's go to Steak and Shake or something.

It gives them an opportunity to see their parent or their grandparent in a different light rather than visiting inside their room in the nursing home and looking at each other for a few hours and trying to think of something to do and to talk about or just to watch television.

It gets them outside and the adult children or their grandchildren are able to watch the reactions of their loved one as they pass by a certain item or something that they might see on the path of the trishaw to give them something to spark more conversation about what do you think about those flowers or did you see the bird up there something else to do and something else to see and talk to them about.

It may not be standard memory care but it's an activity that improves the overall resident experience.

Loved ones engaging in meaningful ways in nature, side by side, feeling the breeze.

You know, it makes me feel young again, about 60 years old.

See, this is what you're gonna say.

It makes me feel young again.

That's perfect.

That's good.