Re: Cohousing as retirement community? | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Lynn Nadeau (welcomeolympus.net) | |
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:26:01 -0600 (MDT) |
I suppose it could work, though adjustments would have to be made in terms of participation. Certainly among the numerous retirement communities that exist, there must be some which have a higher degree of cooperative interaction than others. But I try to imagine our community, with only our oldest members, and wonder what happens when the group collectively becomes less physically able and less mentally able, perhaps, in some cases. Of course people can be vital and sharp at 60-70-80-90 but the odds change. One benefit of age diversity is that people over time have a chance to be the Young, then the Middle, then the Elders. And each group can benefit from the support of the others. The elders can share their wisdom or their parenting skills etc and the young can haul the heavy stuff. At 57, I was grateful this week when my 35 yr old neighbors loaded a bunch of heavy junk for me into their truck to take it to the dump, and another neighbor in his 40s hauled away the giant thorny blackberry canes I'd hacked out of my thicket. Lynn Nadeau, RoseWind Cohousing Port Townsend Washington (Victorian seaport, music, art, nature) http://www.rosewind.org http://www.ptguide.com _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: http://www.communityforum.net/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-l
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Cohousing as retirement community? Bob Morrison, July 14 2002
- Re: Cohousing as retirement community? Sharon Villines, July 14 2002
- Re: Cohousing as retirement community? Lynn Nadeau, July 14 2002
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