Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: The elderly in cohousing

[Peter Kenyon (pfk]

On Tue, 7 Mar 1995, Ms V. Burholt wrote:

> I am a PhD student at Bangor University, North Wales, UK and I am 
> undertaking research into housing and the elderly. I am unsure if the 
> cohousing communities have elderly members (65+) as none of the archive 
> letters I have read on WWW have made reference to them. If any of you 
> have lived, or are living in a community with elderly members and have 
> views on issues such as the benefits tho the community and the benefits 
> to the older persons which you wish to share, could you please sen them 
> to 
> Vanessa Burholt
> sos048 [at] clss1.bangor.ac.uk
> 
> 
I would be very interested if any relevant information to this posting 
could be via the general board so we could all read it. Thanks.

*Request for Australian CoHo Information*

While posting my first notice: I have been reading this for a few months 
and find the whole concept of cohousing fascinating. I was actually 
interested in buying a place to live here in Sydney in the next few 
months and have a few friends who are also in the same situation, a 
married couple just moved over from Perth. I feel that if I could show 
them how the concept works, then they might consider the idea of 
cohousing. I would actually like to see it in reality for myself. The 
benefits seem marvellous.

I would prefer that any cohousing concept I got into here in Sydney 
utilised existing structures in the metropolitan area, 
preferably near public transport (train) and not futher than, say, ten 
kilometres from the city centre. 

There was mention of a group in Tasmania a week or two ago but other than 
that I have not heard of any similar cohousing setup in Australia. Does 
anyone know of any cohousing groups in Australia?

I will be in the US for a day in a few weeks. Can anyone tell me where I 
can get a copy of the Couhousing Journal in the LA South Bay area?

Thanks a lot ...

Peter Kenyon
pfk [at] jolt.mpx.com.au