Cohousing-L Mailing List: July 31. Aging in Cohousing (David Entin)

[Monty Berman (mberman116]

On the topic of Aging in CoHousing, Cohousing-L Digest, Aug. 1, '09, Vol 67, 
Issue 1, I guess this is happening to me. Started as a founding member of 
EcoVillage at Ithaca in 1996 and have, not surprisingly, grown older here. I 
write mainly to share with you all that the two outstanding experiences in my 
last couple of decades have been the two birthday celebrations I held here: the 
first in Jan. of 2004, my 75th, and the other more recently, my 80th, in Jan. 
'09. 
     I used to wait for others to initiate my birthday celebrations but, beyond 
the ones my mother did for me as a young child, this rarely happened. So, these 
two opportunities for me to express my talents in workshop design have resulted 
in two absolutely soul-satisfying party experiences---and I have the 
scrap-books to prove it (put together by a couple of the participants.)

Monty Berman  EcoVillage at Ithaca, NY

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> Subject: Cohousing-L Digest, Vol 67, Issue 1
> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 03:16:26 -0700
 
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>    1. Aging in Cohousing (David Entin)  
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> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:00:09 -0400
> From: "David Entin" <davidentin [at] comcast.net>
> Subject: [C-L]_ Aging in Cohousing
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> To respond to Shira Klapper who wants to do research on aging on cohousing:
> 1) I understand there are three completed senior cohousing communities in the 
> US.  One is Silver Sage in Boulder, CO.  All are relatively new and thus 
> don't have a long track record of experience.
> 2) You should see "Senior Cohousing: A Community Approach to Independent 
> Living" by Charles Durrett.   I believe he would be willing to talk with you 
> as well.  He is a cohousing architect and experienced practitioner who lives 
> in cohousing and has led several workshops on how to create senior cohousing. 
>  
> 3) I also suggest you talk with Diane Margolis at Cambridge Cohousing who put 
> together a panel at our recent national cohousing conference on the subject 
> of aging in cohousing and her community has wrestled with this issue.
> 4) We had a small working group on this topic a couple of years ago at Rocky 
> Hill and Pathways, two adjacent cohousing communities in Northampton, MA.
>     I hope these suggestions are helpful to you.  The Cohousing Association 
> of the US would like to receive a copy of your research to make it available 
> to cohousing communities.  I am on the Board of Coho/US.   David Entin, Rocky 
> Hill Cohousing.
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