[Editor’s Comment: Please join Laird for this amazing opportunity offered at the Aging Better Together Conference!] Back in early January Alice Alexander and I worked out an agreement for me to conduct a pre-conference half-day workshop entitled Community Conversations about Aging: What You Need to Talk about and How. It was scheduled for May 19,... Read More

[Editor’s notes: this is a repost from Ann Zabaldo’s blog on MidAtlantic Cohousing]; join Ann Zabaldo and Janice Blanchard at the Aging Better Together conference.] Do you know that ** 90% of the care given to elders is given by family members? but … almost 25% of the population retiring now at age 65 are... Read More

One of the great tragedies of our hyper-individualized society is the separation of the generations. There is so much love and wisdom lost, and so much needless suffering endured as a result of the isolation between elders, single adults, and children. This separation has been enacted so effectively that it is now seen as preferential... Read More

[Join David Entin at the Aging Better Together Conference] Have you noticed that folks in your cohousing community are getting older? You moved in five, or ten, or fifteen years ago and people who were about sixty are now in their seventies. Your community may have begun to wonder how you will handle aging in... Read More

Last week, an excellent article launched a cohousing discussion on Dr. Bill Thomas’s ChangingAging site. The author Beth Baker wrote the well-received book With a Little Help from our Friends—Creating Community as We Grow Older, which profiles cohousing communities. Beth interviewed members of Sand River Cohousing – originally ElderGrace – given an AARP Livable Communities... <

When talking about “Aging in Community” I often refer to a senior-friendly cohousing community. Please don’t confuse the term senior-friendly with senior-only. Senior-friendly can refer to either multi-generational or seniors only communities. They both modify the cohousing model to create physical and social environments that allow people to flourish as they get older. A senior-friendly...

Like many other baby boomers, the experience of caring for elder parents had a profound effect on my vision of aging in America. Although, my work had been focused on improving the lives of seniors through the use of technology and options for aging in place, the realities of aging in place didn’t hit me... Read More

[Laird’s post is relevant to our Aging Better Together Conference, with sessions on “conscious aging” and “the power of purpose.” Come join us!] I recently received an interesting invitation, asking if I would write about elderhood, and what it means to make a purposeful transition into that stage of life: “Elderhood is certainly one of... Read More

[Editor’s Note: Come to the Aging Better Together Conference and join Laird’s pre-conference intensive: “Community Conversations about Aging: What You Need to Talk about and How”] Almost all intentional communities do not expect to be able to provide support to members through end of life. While it may work out to provide that for some,... Read More