These RESOURCES are a sampling of some of the innovative models
being developed both nationally and in local communities:
Beacon Hill Village - Is a neighborhood-created retirement community that has partnered with service providers to meet the needs of their members. www.beaconhillvillage.org
CoAbode - Is a single mother’s house sharing network. A great model for all women. www.co-abode.com
Elder Cohousing Network - Supports the development of elder-rich cohousing communities. www.eldercohousing.org
ElderSpirit Community - A cohousing community of mutual support and late-life spirituality for people 55+ years. Abingdon, VA. www.elderspirit.net
Leading Age Institute- helps local communities launch age-friendly programs based on proven innovative models – i.e. virtual retirement “Villages,” shared homes, cohousing, and social contract communities. www.leadingage.org
Second Journey - Mindfulness, Service & Community in the Second Half of Life. www.secondjourney.org
The Sage-ing Guild - Promoting the process of approaching aging as a positive journey filled with wisdom, learning and possibilities. www.sage-ingguild.orghttp://www.thetransitionnetwork.org/
BOOKS about building community….and the path of growing older
Block, Peter. Community: The Structure of Belonging. San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler, 2008.
Chiras, Dan and Wann, Dave. Superberbia! 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2003.
Christian, Diana Leafe. Creating a Life Together, Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities: New Society Publishers, 2003.and Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community, New Society Publishers 2007.
Dass, Ram. Still Here, Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying. New York: Penguin Books, 2000.
Durrett, Charles. Cohousing, A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1988.
Durrett, Charles. Senior Cohousing Handbook, A Community Approach to Independent Living. 2nd edition New Society Publishers, 2009.
Levine, Suzanne Braun. Inventing the Rest of Our Lives. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.
Wise Talk, Wild Women. San Francisco: Council Oak Books, 2007.
Medlicott, Joan. The Ladies of Covington Series
Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman. From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A New Vision of Growing Older. New York, Warner Books, 1995.
Shaffer, Carolyn and Anundsen, Kristin. Creating Community Anywhere, Finding Support and Connection in a Fragmented World. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1993.
Wann, David. Reinventing Community: Stories from the Walkways of Cohousing. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Press, 2005.
Stephanie, Marohn. Audacious Aging Elite Books (March 15, 2009)
Sadler,William. The Third Chapter; Passion, Risk & Adventure in the 25 Years After 50
Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara. Changing Course...Navigating Life After 50
Cohen, Gene. The Creative Age
Bolen Jean Shinoda, Crones Don't Whine
Wheatley, Margaret. Turning To One Another; Simple Conversations To Restore Hope to the Future
Buck, John and Sharon Villines. We the People, A Guide to Sociocratic
Principles and Methods
Magazines
Community Magazine- quarterly
A Sampling of Innovative Community Models and Helpful Websites….
The Cohousing Association Cohousing is a type of collaborative housing in which residents actively participates in the design and operation of their own neighborhoods. Cohousing residents are consciously committed to living as a community. www.cohousing.org
The Golden Girl Homes – A Twin Cities, MN organization that helps women to live in community by sharing housing, developing networks and linking them to services supportive to women. www.goldengirlhomes.us
Shared Housing – National Clearinghouse, promotes shared housing as a means for people to remain in their homes, where two or more unrelated people share a house. The Clearinghouse has limited resources. www.NationalSharedHousing.org
Intentional Communities (Fellowship of Intentional Communities, FIC) This web site serves the growing communities' movement, providing resources for finding a community home and creating more community in your life. www.ic.org
Construction and Resources
Ross Chapin www.rosschapin.com focus of our work is custom residential design and neighborhood development. Cottage and small house plans, retrofit, many projects.
Manufactured Homes
www.silverplanet.com/housing/upscale-park-model-trailers-one-way-retire/55498
Universal Design
www.silverplanet.com/housing/redesigning-homes-eye-future/54770
Articles
AARP articles www.aarpmagazine.org/lifestyle/the_new_housemates
Recent N.Y Times article on cohousing - www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/garden/11cohousing.html
Second Journey Itineraries- Article by Marianne Kilkenny From Dreaming to Doing www.secondjourney.org/Itin.htm, March 2010 (need to scroll down to get to it)
Other place/countries
SuiteLiving 360 is a Canadian not for profit created specifically to address the urgent need to find innovative affordable housing & quality lifestyle opportunities for aging women 55+. www.suiteliving360.org
Glossary of living spaces
www.silverplanet.com/housing/housing-options-glossary/55728
What is Community?
"Community is a dynamic whole that emerges when a group of people participate in common practices; depend upon one another; make decisions together; identify themselves as part of something larger than the sum of their individual relationships; and commit themselves for the long term to their own, one another’s, and, the group’s well being."
from Creating Community Anywhere, Carolyn Shaffer & Kristin Anundsen