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Cohousing for older people
— housing innovation in the Netherlands and Denmark | | Author(s) | Greg Bamford |
| Journal title | Australasian Journal on Ageing, vol 24.1, March 2005 |
| Publisher | Blackwell Publishing, March 2005 |
| Pages | pp 44-46 |
| Source | http://www.cota.org.au / http://www.blackwellpublishingasia.com |
| Keywords | Independent housing ; Warden serviced dwellings ; Living with others ; Netherlands ; Denmark. |
| Annotation | Co-housing for older people is housing initiative and managed by older people themselves, with individual dwellings and common spaces, aiming for privacy and community. The research for this paper is based on a literature review and interviews (in English) with residents of seven schemes in the Netherlands and Denmark, a social housing organisation and several researchers in the field (in 1995 and 2002). Co-housing for older people is more well-established in its countries of origin - Denmark and the Netherlands - as a way for older people to live in their own house or with a self-chosen group of other older people as neighbours, with shared space and facilities they collectively determine or control. As more such housing is built and occupied, it has become easier to choose and assess this option. It remains to be seen how widespread its appeal will be, but co-housing for older people is now a valued housing niche. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050518207 A |
| Classmark | KL: KLM: KA: 76H: 76K |
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