Managing Participation in Community
Participation is one of the most important parts of community living, especially senior cohousing. It means engaging with your community around necessary work (like maintenance tasks), community...
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Senior community supports lifelong learning
Shepherd Village’s newsletter, the Shepherd Village Voice, ran the following article in its October 2023 issue. With their permission, we are reprinting it here as a great example of lifelong...
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Dyan Wiley
Dyan is a founding member and longtime resident of Cherry Hill Cohousing (formerly Pioneer Valley) Cohousing in western Massachusetts and lives part-time in Belfast, Maine. She has advised other...
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Lew Bowers
Lew Bowers is a founding member of PDX Commons. He is also a Certified Cohousing Consultant through Katie McCamant’s 500 Communities Program. Currently he is assisting Adams Creek Cohousing get...
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No Seniors Left Behind During the Holidays
As seniors in living cohousing, many of us may not have family or close friends nearby to celebrate holidays with. Maybe you moved across the country to live in your community, or maybe you’ve lost...
View ArticleHelping our neighbors
How should cohousing residents help each other as they get older or suffer age-related injuries and illnesses? This is a hot topic in senior cohousing circles, sometimes referred to as “co-caring.”...
View ArticleA new community on the cusp of completion
Construction of Heartwood Commons in Tulsa, OK, the newest 55+ cohousing community to be built in the nation, is almost done, and members expect to move in early this year. The great news is that they...
View ArticleIs a Facilitation Course Right for Me?
Taking a facilitation course, or any community process course, is a great gift to your community and to yourself. The skills gained can dramatically improve the experience of living in community,...
View ArticleCommunity Spotlight: Heartwood Commons
Last month we introduced Heartwood Commons in Tulsa, OK, a new 55+ cohousing community that will be ready for move-in early this year. The great news is that they still have a few homes left for sale!...
View ArticleMutual Support in Senior Cohousing
The issue inevitably comes up — how, when and to what extent do we help our neighbors? People move into cohousing in a spirit of togetherness, camaraderie and caring for one another. But what exactly...
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Heartwood Cohousing: New Construction in an Established Community
Heartwood Cohousing is nestled in the San Juan Mountains in Southwest Colorado. We’re anestablished community of 24 homes (move in was in 2000). In general, homes are hard to comeby at Heartwood, but...
View ArticleTour senior communities May 4–5!
Every spring CohoUS sponsors a cohousing open house weekend when many communities around the country open their doors to the curious. This year the dates are May 4–5, coming right up. For many...
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Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Lots to Learn!
It turns out that building a community, especially from scratch, is harder work than many of us imagined. There are myriad pieces to think about, discuss, plan for. Finding people who are interested...
View Article‘Round and ‘Round
One of the challenges of making community living work is being able to truly listen to one another and to express one’s own voice. Quimper Village, a senior cohousing community in Port Townsend, WA,...
View ArticleNational Cohousing Conference Coming Right Up
The anticipation has been building, and we’re now just a month away from Coho US’s 2024 National Cohousing Conference, “Rooted in Belonging.” This year’s conference takes place in Denver, CO, at the...
View ArticlePreventing and undoing internalized ageism in cohousing
Hot on the heels of great aging-in-community conversations, sessions and connections at lastmonth’s National Cohousing Conference in Denver, I recently had the opportunity to participatein “Summer...
View ArticleSeniors in cohousing get higher profile
The National Cohousing Conference held in Denver Aug. 2–4 gave seniors in cohousing a higher profile than previous conferences, thanks to our new Seniors in Cohousing Committee. The committee...
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Burns Village: A beacon of neighborliness and connection
In a world increasingly characterized by isolation and disconnection, Burns Village & Farm in Burns, Tennessee is poised to stand as a beacon of neighborliness and connection. This emerging...
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Hager Homestead: Senior Cohousing in New England
Community Profile by Raines Cohen, CohoUS Seniors in Cohousing committee As senior cohousing neighborhoods take shape around the country, let’s take a peek at one established this year: Hager...
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The Power of Intentional Communities
Beautiful rainbow on the land over the Temple of Trees In today’s world, many people are searching for connection amidst an increasingly isolated society. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s...
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