Aging in Place: Cohousing and Beyond (Panel)

Raines Cohen, facilitator, Susan McWhinney-Morse (panel members TBD)

While we’re debating whether creating aging-friendly communities involves adapting various models like senior cohousing or creating aging-friendly neighborhoods, community groups are moving forward with initiatives to make existing neighborhoods more like cohousing and more supportive of aging-in place, without people having to leave their existing homes. We'll hear from a leader from Beacon Hill Village, the Boston-based model for the movement, a local architect/developer of senior-friendly cohousing, as well as stories about how intergenerational cohousing can support the aging process. We will continue the discussion about how we can support and learn from each other in this growing movement.

Susan McWhinney-Morse is a founding boardmember of Beacon Hill Village, a Boston-based organization that is promoting neighborhood-organizing strategies to support aging in place, both locally and as a national model.

Raines Cohen is a Northern California Cohousing regional organizer and a Cohousing Coach, teaching Cohousing 101 online and in person and launching Cohousing.TV. A Certified Senior Cohousing Facilitator and Certified Green Building Professional, He's been in the movement for a decade and building community for more than a quarter century and has served on the Coho/US board and helped organize the 2001 national conference; he currently serves on the FIC board and lives at Berkeley (CA) Cohousing (originally at Swan's Market in Oakland), with his wife Betsy Morris.