Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: New View as a model of possibility

[Jim Snyder-Grant (jimsg]

Lavinia:

Thanks for your kind words about New View, and good luck in your search.

You are right about the challenges of aging in place. With so little
turnover, and so few new babies, we are approximately 10 years older
at New View than we were a decade ago.  I just got my AARP card in the
mail, and the dinners are getting quieter & quieter.

We have started having some salons focused on aging in place at New
View. It's been a delightful and occasionally challenging set of
conversations. Certainly the mix of our housing stock will need some
adjustment if we are to make this work, perhaps making some dwellings
in to multiple-household situations. And of course there are all the
legal, emotional, logistical, architectural, financial, (etc)
challenges.

Chuck Durrett's book on elder cohousing has been helpful.

-Jim
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Jim Snyder-Grant
18 Half Moon Hill
Acton MA 01720
978 266-9409