Cohousing-L Mailing List: Is Senior Cohousing for Me?/Aging in Place

[Ann Zabaldo (zabaldo]

Hello Marvin!

Welcome to the Cohousing-L.  Happy to have you aboard! 

From your posting seeking connection w/ others as you age… you are clearly 
excited to find cohousing … I fear you may have caught the cohousing bug.  It’s 
incurable. Don’t fight it.  :-)

I have taken the liberty of cutting and pasting your email into a new email to 
start a new thread that will address your query directly.  This way,  instead 
of mixing in w/ the previous thread on 
65+ cohousing members organizing to address issues of aging in community … the 
threads will be separate and trackable.  It’s sometimes a little complicated 
doing this as queries, desires, needs thoughts, experiences tend to overlap.  
But since you have a query significantly different than the question posted by 
Ed Sutton, a new posting will be more helpful.

After that long winded intro …

There are many resources available to seekers of cohousing.  Suggest starting 
with the book SENIOR COHOUSING by Charles Durrett.  It’s the Bible of Senior 
Cohousing.  And also check out this resource:

http://www.cohousing.org

This website is maintained by The Cohousing Association of the United States or 
CohoUS for short.  There you will find a section on Senior Cohousing:

https://www.cohousing.org/senior-cohousing/

On this website, you will find a list of Senior Cohousing Communities — you can 
see there are quite a number forming, building and established senior cohousing 
communities.  There are links to each community’s website.

https://www.cohousing.org/directory/?dosrch=1&q=&wpbdp_view=search&listingfields%5B1%5D=&listingfields%5B46%5D=588&listingfields%5B34%5D=&listingfields%5B55%5D=&listingfields%5B63%5D=-1&listingfields%5B64%5D=-1&listingfields%5B12%5D=Senior&listingfields%5B13%5D=-1&listingfields%5B15%5D=-1&listingfields%5B16%5D=-1&listingfields%5B67%5D=-1&listingfields%5B20%5D=&listingfields%5B68%5D=-1&listingfields%5B69%5D=&listingfields%5B30%5D=0&listingfields%5B70%5D=

Start w/ the book and website.  Continue posting to this list w/ questions, 
thoughts, suggestions. 

Again, welcome aboard, Marvin.  Buckle up for the ride!

Best —

Ann Zabaldo
Takoma Village Cohousing
Washington, DC
Ex. Dir. & Mbr. Board of Directors
Mid Atlantic Cohousing
Principal, Cohousing Collaborative, LLC
Falls Church, VA
202.546.4654
zabaldo [at] earthlink.net

i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?

It answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere
Warsan Shire  from the poem: what they did yesterday afternoon

NOTE:  Please use zabaldo [at] earthlink.net for email.




Hi all,I am reaching out to you as I am new to thinking about co-housing and 
got on a mailing list. You would be a great help in directing me to the right 
people, if they are not you. Thanks in advance.
I am a retired psychotherapist, 83. I now live in San Francisco. I am in pretty 
good health and totally independent. I am now without a partner, I am missing 
connection. I like to shop and cook and manage my home pretty well. I now lead 
a weekly support group for seniors, which might be useful as a facilitator. I 
like to dance and could teach others. I like to help others. I do not have 
assets for a large buy-in to a one-bedroom unit.
How would I go about finding a co-housing community that might be right for me 
as I age and have additional needs? Are there settings beyond retirement 
communities for me?