Cohousing-L Mailing List: The Elephant in the Room

[Ann Zabaldo (zabaldo]

Hi all —

In just a few weeks a bunch of us will be gathering Salt Lake City for the 
Aging Better Together conference.  Will you be there?  I sure hope so.  I want 
to see you!

Janice Blanchard and I are giving three of the presentations at the two day 
event.  Our interest is in Deep Aging — that period between healthy aging and 
death.  Is cohousing an answer to keeping people out of nursing homes?  What 
programs are in place that cohousing communities can adapt to have community 
members stay at home? How is cohousing uniquely positioned to address the 
issues of Deep Aging? These are just a few of the questions Janice and I and 
others are trying to answer.   If you’ve been wondering where and how you will 
spend that period of you life when you move from needing assistance driving to 
needing assistance with basic activities of daily living (dressing, feeding, 
toileting) I urge you to attend our sessions:  The Elephant in the Common Room, 
An Elephant Never Forgets and The Elephant’s Graveyard.  Details on the 
conference here:  

http://cohousing.org/2016aging

In addition to the SLC conference, Mid Atlantic Cohousing is funding a year 
long Aging in Community Collaboratory, in which Janice and I will work with six 
cohousing communities to help each one develop a customized program for aging 
in place in community.   The first weekend is coming up April 8-10.  
Ultimately, we will publish the results of this study.

In preparation for the SLC conference and the launch of the Collaboratory I’m 
publishing a series of postings about Aging in Community and cohousing via the 
weekly Mid Atlantic Cohousing newsletter.  You can subscribe to the newsletter 
for FREE:  

http://www.midatlanticcohousing.org   Click on the BIG white button!

But if you don’t want to subscribe you can read the main posts of the 
newsletter on line at the MAC blog.  

http://www.midatlanticcohousing.org/cohousing-blog 

From now on, just the lead articles will be uploaded to the blog site— if you 
want all the other fun goodies in the newsletter … you’ll have to suck it up 
and subscribe.

BTW—You may have already seen one of the recent posts “The Elephant in the 
Room” which Alice Alexander uploaded to the cohousing.org website: 

http://cohousing.org

I am honored that Alice chose to include this article at cohousing.org — I’m 
gonna keep writing!

If you want to know more about the Aging in Community Collaboratory do check 
out the MAC website.  And read the blog posts!

So … will I see you in Salt Lake City?


Best --

Ann Zabaldo
Takoma Village Cohousing
Washington, DC
Principal, Cohousing Collaborative, LLC
Falls Church, VA
202.546.4654

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