The Older Women's Cohousing project was set up by a small group of women in 1998 with the aim of building a Cohousing Community in London along the lines of a model developed by older people in the Netherlands. We are a mixed tenure group of women over fifty and have as a development partner the housing association Housing for Women. They are helping us to locate a suitable site and to enlist the support of a larger housing association in developing it for us. We are viewed by the Housing Corporation as a pilot project and they have given us a Social Housing Grant to test out a model that may benefit other older people in developing their own Cohousing Communities. Additionally, we have the support of the Tudor Trust. Read more via the link below...
Older Women’s Cohousing Project, London - Press release July 2009
Sun, 10/11/2009 - 14:49 — adminOlder Women’s Cohousing Project, London and the UK Cohousing Network
14 July 2009.
Amid all the discussion on today’s Green Paper on Adult Social Care, it needs to be recognised that government - and all those public and private sector bodies agonising about society’s ageing and the future of health and social care services –continue to neglect a much overlooked resource for limiting future costs – the energies, drives and preferences of older people themselves.
