If you think living in retirement housing will cramp your active lifestyle, think again. A life in retirement cohousing may actually increase your activity because you have other retirees or near retirees to participate in your interests and share their interests with you.
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Many people 50 and older do feel like they are too active to live in retirement or senior housing.
Retirement housing in Texas
The current lifestyle of retirees seems to be a progression of escalating isolation as friends die or move away and increasing frailties constrict movement outside of the home. A downward spiral begins and eventually pushes many of active retirees to the dreaded fate of the nursing home.
Retirement or senior cohousing can stop that spiral.
The lifestyle of retirement cohousing is built around the premises that:
1. Your neighborhood is your community thus allowing you to live in a more intimate manner within cohousing. You don't suffer the isolation that leads to social and emotional loneliness.
2. The more hardy and healthy of the retirement cohousing residents will assist in the care of their more frail neighbors.
People may imagine retirement cohousing as a bunch of retirees napping on the porch in their respective rocking chairs. The opposite is true.
Actually, living with friends gives seniors other people to join them in the creation of a more active lifestyle than most of them would lead on their own.
For example, living with other seniors not only gives residents traveling companions but it also gives them the freedom to travel knowing their home is being carefully watched for them. You can also add the bonus of sharing the cost of traveling which helps all parties financially and allows even more travel on the same budget.
Seniors are more apt to exercise with other seniors of like physical abilities. Even walking is more fun and more apt to happen with a walking companion who shares your speed and fitness level.
Although retirement is not a prerequisite of residency, many residents of retirement cohousing are retired and have time to pursue an active lifestyle that is not possible while still working.
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Golf course three blocks away
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