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You may be interested in this report....https://www.thesisdriven.com/letters/the-winners-and-losers-of-americas-demographic-future/ _ The US has the same challenges....people would rather modify and adapt the home they are living in than me into a "special" facility for old people. It makes a lot of sense to remain in your community.

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I have been actively researching successful co-living models since 2011- initially professionally whilst working for a wealth management firm focused on retirement planning and now because I want to create a model that will work for myself and many of my mid-sixty year old friends who cannot rely on children who live in other countries, when we need to live in a place where someone knows what is happening to us.

In essence, no-one wants to voluntarily move from your house into an institution with imposed rules just full of old people waiting to die. The design of these solutions are all wrong because it lacks inter-generational dynamism- something that occurs in normal communities. Co-living situations that would make sense allow for people of all ages to live in a mutually synergistic way - the young parent who may need someone to keep an eye on children after school, the old lady who owns a car but needs the young student to drive her occassionally to the doctor and makes her car available to other co-habitants in exchange for services, the rotation of community dinners, the sharing of gardening chores, the pooling of maintenance costs and co-ordination of visits by nurses, physical therapists etc, the deliberate curation of ages, resources, skills and professions that make such an arrangement work. This may mean that older people who have assets, and need younger people to buy into the co-living solution, subsidize the cost to get the right mix of families, students, middle aged professionals, etc.

And above all, an ownership model/ tenancy agreement that allows you to exit if you need, and that is mindful of the group dynamics that change with every newcomer and every departure. In my opinion, achieving the optimal scale and maintaining a healthy group dynamic are the hardest!

What I and others who are looking for a suitable and cost-effective co-living solution want is individual dignity, autonomy within a framework of communal guidelines, inter-generational friendship, cameraderie, reduced overheads, continued joy and quality of life knowing that others have bought into the system on the principle of looking out for one another like good neighbours do - not a place to wait for death.

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