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SENIOR COHOUSING: GROWING OLD TOGETHER

In 2018, Staying Put or Moving On released a short film about senior cohousing called “Growing Old Together.” The subject is near and dear to many Boomers who have fantasized about recreating the communal housing of the 1960s and 1970s when they lived and shared resources and meals with friends in intentional communities.

PDX Commons

Introduction to PDX Commons, a cohousing community in Portland. What does it mean to live in community? How do they do it? Why do they love it? Video from Cohousing US.

FIRST RESIDENTS MOVE INTO NORTH CAROLINA LGBTQ COHOUSING COMMUNITY

Boston’s NPR Station WBUR profiles Village Hearth Cohousing which is believed to be the first cohousing community in the nation built specifically for LGBTQ seniors and their allies. (Audio below. Original article written by WUNC’s Laura Pellicer.)

A Short visit to village hearth cohousing

A slideshow introduction to the Village Hearth Cohousing Community in Durham, North Carolina. Village Hearth is the first 55+ cohousing community in the USA created by and for ​LGBTQs, Friends, and Allies.

For Rent: Senior Citizens Turn To Roommates For Companionship, Cost-Cutting

NPR live On Point show. (11/6/18). Real-life “Golden Girls.” Senior citizens getting roommates to ease financial pressures and fight loneliness. It’s a growing trend. Discussing this and other innovative living arrangements, including cohousing, are: Wendi Burkhardt, co-founder and CEO of Silvernest, Dr. Anne Glass, gerontologist & professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and Rodney Harrell, director of livable communities at the AARP Policy Institute.

Elder Cohouing in the United States: An Overview

Dr. Anne Glass hosted an event entitled: Elder Cohousing Research Symposium: Is this innovative housing option an answer to social isolation? on October 27, 2016 at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. This event was co-sponsored by the UNCW College of Health and Human Services and AARP. Here is Dr. Glass talking about Elder cohousing in the U.S.: An overview. For more information and videos of the talks, visit the UNCW Gerontology website.

Oakcreek senior cohousing community

An introduction to the Oakcreek Senior Cohousing Community in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Silver Sage Village Senior Cohousing - Boulder, Co

AARP's Rick Moody on Senior Cohousing 

Harry "Rick" Moody, director of Academic Affairs for AARP, talks about how senior cohousing can play a role in the diversity of strategies for healthy aging in the new Boomer retirement era. Recorded at the National Cohousing Conference in Boulder, CO, June, 2010.

The Older Women's Cohousing Project

In the UK today, being older, non-partnered and female can often mean isolation, loneliness and a lack of control of your own life. It doesn't have to be this way, and the Older Women's Co-housing Project is about a pioneering group of women over 60. Click image below to view.

 

Looking Out for Each Other As We Grow Older.