senior cohousing

Lifetime Community Project

admin — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:36:44 +0000

We plan to create a cohousing community in West Yorkshire, for people who want a co-operative and self-responsible life style for their later years. Our community will support members to grow older together, to “age in place” safely and enjoyably. The community will include 12 – 20 homes with shared facilities such as a large dining room, recreation areas, laundry, workshops and gardens. There will be a strong emphasis on environmental sustainability.

We want to engage local people’s interest and involvement in the LifeTime project, so that we remain part of the wider community. We will be a model of a supportive and accessible age-in-place community, encouraging other older people to consider such projects for themselves. We shall raise the profile of this kind of housing project with policy makers and service providers.

You can contact us via the contact form link above. See below for more information about the Lifetime Community Project.

Vivarium, Fife

admin — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:29:29 +0000

Vivarium is for people who choose to live in a positive, co-operative and responsible manner with family, friends, neighbours and the environment.

Recent research shows that housing options for older people are limited and do not meet the needs of a population who are increasingly active, and who are seeking to retain their full cognitive faculties for as long as possible whilst wishing to enjoy a sense of dignity and self worth. It is against this backdrop that Vivarium was born.

The pilot project will be for older people who recognise the difficulties of living in rural areas. These are people who will choose to live in a co-operative fashion and continue to contribute in a meaningful way to society. Vivarium members hope to remain active and involved in life for as long as possible, not simply to be provided for and be dependent upon health care support mechanisms.

Vivarium membership groups will be self managing and members will be involved in the decision making process throughout.
Vivarium members will have a desire to live in a co-operative manner, sharing resources thus going someway to alleviating problems of food and fuel poverty.
Communal areas are integral to the concept of cohousing, providing areas where residents can meet and feel part of the community.
This concept can be applied inter- generationally and to any "common interest groups".

For more information, please visit our website or contact Hugh Hoffman, Vice Chairman, The Vivarium Trust on 01337-831403. E-mail Hugh via his contact form.

Older Womens Cohousing, London

admin — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:01:13 +0000

The Older Women’s Cohousing (OWCH) Group in London intends to build a mutually supportive community for women over fifty in High Barnet, North London. They have a site there and this will be developed by the Hanover housing association as part of its senior cohousing initiative. The project is being designed by PTE architects and planning permission is currently being sought. OWCH combines prospective purchasers, shared owners and affordable renters and will work with Housing for Women, a housing association, to manage the rental units. The group meets each month in north London and women interested in the project are encouraged to get in touch via the OWCH website.

New Source of Cohousing News - US blog

admin — Fri, 06 May 2011 09:33:10 +0100

Hello to My Cohousing Friends!

Some of you may know me through the research I did over the past two years on common house design and the social life of semi-private spaces. Many of you asked to be kept posted on any new research or news... and I finally have some!

'Inside Housing' magazine reports on cohousing

admin — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:41:48 +0100

'Inside Housing' a magazine of news, views and jobs for professionals interested in social housing, has just published this piece on cohousing. Do have a look.
'Inside Housing' on cohousing

Perthshire - Senior and Multi-Generational Co-housing Initiative

admin — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:30:30 +0000

Senior and Multi-Generational Co-housing Initiative

Culdees at Boreland Farm, Fearnan, Loch Tay, Perthshire in Scotland are pioneering an eco-village where three/four generations will co-exist in self-built eco-houses. We will create work where we live and build a forest school for the children. Green issues are paramount. We aspire to be as self-sufficient and self-reliant as possible.

Scandinavian Cohousing - report on conference and visits to communities - May 2010

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:46:06 +0100

International Collaborative Housing Conference, May 2010, Stockholm and Cohousing Tour of Sweden and Denmark

Older Women’s Cohousing Project, London - Press release July 2009

admin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:49:47 +0100

Older 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.

Older Womens Cohousing, London

Yorkshire smallholding available with potential for senior cohousing

admin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:34:50 +0100

Smallholding near Selby in Yorkshire available for cohousing development
Senior(ish) Cohousing

Myself and my husband are in our early fifties, and live on a 5 acre rural smallholding with a huge greenhouse (over 2 acres!) near Selby in Yorkshire. We grow strawberries and tomatoes which we sell to local farm shops, box schemes and at farmers’ markets. My husband works full time on the smallholding, whilst I have a full time job and help out at evenings and weekends.

However, there’s just too much work for two of us, so we are looking for like-minded people who are passionate about great-tasting food, who care about the environment and would jump at the chance of living in the countryside.

Article in USA TODAY about senior cohousing

admin — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:51:02 +0100

American news company USA TODAY have run an article about senior cohousing.

You can find the full story here.