Cohousing-L Mailing List: Senior Cohousing workshop in Boulder April 20-24

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

Charles R. Durrett <charles.durrett [at] cohousingco.com>
is the author of the message below.  It was posted by
Fred, the Cohousing-L list manager <fholson [at] cohousing.org>
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Dear Cohousers of the U.S. and Canada,

In April Jim Leach, Annie Russell and myself are holding a workshop
specifically geared to seniors attempting to plan and organize new senior
cohousing communities in North America.  There's a reason that a small
country of 5 million (Denmark) has 250 senior cohousing communities and
our country of 300 million has only three.  And that reason is the lack of
the kind of discussion that we're going to be having in Boulder from April
20th to 24th. And while intergenerational cohousing is beautiful (I live
in an intergenerational community of 94 people, 21 of which are seniors);
it turns out that not all seniors want to live around kids, and I have
seen many times that in intergenerational cohousing the needs of the kids
is usually the agenda and careers and spouses. Sometimes there is too
little time for the seniors.  In Senior Cohousing, seniors and their needs
are the agenda. And I've never seen folks have more fun than seniors in
Senior Cohousing since the college dorms.  So, in the name of advancing
the cause, I kindly ask that share workshop flyer at
http://justcomm.org/temp/temp33.pdf
with other members of your community I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks very much,

Chuck Durrett

McCamant & Durrett Architects
241-B Commercial Street
Nevada City, CA 95959
530.265.9980

charles.durrett [at] cohousingco.com
http://www.mccamant-durrett.com