Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Condos & Cohousing

[R Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

Same dynamic afflicts the retirement communities I design.  When a new
retirement community opens up, the average age of the community is in the
mid- to late-sixties.  But time takes its toll, and a decade or two later,
the average age has crawled up to near 80 years.  Relatively healthy and
active couples in their late 60¹s refuse to join a community of ³old people²
(or worse, ³old ladies²).

This is not an easy one to solve.  Even if one believes in ³senior
cohousing² (as an alternative to multi-generational), one¹s community can
rapidly get TOO senior.

Philip Dowds
Cornerstone Cohousing
Cambridge, MA

On 4/4/11 1:47 PM, "Sharon Villines" <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> wrote:

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> FWIW as a possible future for cohousing: this is a mixed single home and
> duplex community of 58 1400 SF two-bedroom units of which 52 are occupied by
> single women. "They weren't single when they moved in; it just works out that
> way," the resident manager, a single man, told me.
> 
> Sharon
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> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
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