Re: cohousing for elderly | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Fred H Olson (fholsonmaroon.tc.umn.edu) | |
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 10:00:09 -0600 |
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Henk Kroon of the Netherlands ca79 [at] solo.pipex.co.za. ( from May 1997 on gambit [at] worldaccess.nl) wrote: > We are a group of three elderly families (average age 62 and pensioners) = > > that would like to start a co-housing project in the Netherlands. > ... > > We are particularly interested in: ... > > integration with other generations or strictly over 55 > I think this is a key decision. Typically cohousing communities are eclectic but from time to time I hear of more homogeneous groups such as single mothers with reasonable incomes or vegetarians or vegans or older people who are contemplating cohousing. Generally I personally dont like to limited a group. ( tho food preference based groups have an attraction (at least in passing) given the prominence common meals in cohousing :) In my experience their are two tendencies among older folks -- those who want to live without the nuisance of kids around and those who find kids to be a valuable feature (despite the inevitable complications :) My guess ( I have no real data) is that more older folks would welcome having kids around than current U.S. housing projects designed for older people allow for. But then planning in the U.S. often is very segmented - explicitly by income, age, ownership pattern (own vs rent) and defacto by race / culture. I think it can be argued that their eclectic groups have an advantage of diversity of resources, skills and recruiting opportunities. Tho I've also observed more committed groups (non cohousing) when they are more committed to a more limited specific goal. > any thoughts on ideal number of project members = My personal target is usually 30 households tho again I dont have that much objective data experience. I think the range of number of adults might also be a design criteria (to accomodate various household sizes). The low end of the size range should allow for enough folks that one does not feel the need to relate "too closely" to everyone -- families with exasperating kids for example :) Fred who will be 50 in May (our son will be 8 in April) Homewood Retrofit Cohousing - house two is occupied tho looking for 2 housemates. We have agreed to eat together once a week and invite one prospective member and neighbor each week. http://freenet.msp.mn.us/housing/cohousing/homewood/ -- Fred H. Olson fholson [at] tc.umn.edu (612)588-9532 Amateur radio: WB0YQM List manager of Nbhd-tc (Twin Cities Neighborhood issues) and Cohousing-L (see http://www.cohousing.org ) Note: I encourage posters to occasionally add a few lines of update about their community at the end of their messages the way Judy Baxter of MOCOCO does and I did above.
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cohousing for elderly Henk-Andr=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9 Kroon, March 18 1997
- Re: cohousing for elderly Fred H Olson, March 19 1997
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