Retirement and senior cohousing is built using universal design for retirees who intend to age in place.
Retirement Cohousing Directory
Aging
Here Is Both Delightful and Graceful
Are
Rentals a Source of Income or Nuisance?
Attracting Younger People
Common House in Retirement Cohousing
Deciding
If Cohousing Is Your Correct Choice
Ecohousing:
A Green Retirement
Features of Common House
Finding DFW Cohousing Communities
Friction
Making Community Decision
Gardens
in Retirement Cohousing
How
Much Does It Cost?
Importance of Autos Recedes
Innumerable Benefits
of Cohousing
Locating Retirement Cohousing in
DFW
Near
Universal Features
Planning Outdoor Common Areas
Retirement
Cohousing & Your Active Lifestyle
Social Isolation & Loneliness Relating to Dementia &
Alzheimer Disease
What About
Children?
What
Are Usual Common
Areas?
What
Is Shared, Private in Retirement Cohousing?
1. Senior Cohousing is designed not only for community, but also for individual privacy.
2. Each senior family has a private home which is normally modest in size with "green" construction saving energy, materials, and money.
3. Each family has at least one person who is age 55 or over in order to reside in the senior community.
4. Each private home is built using universal design and can fit the lifestyle of an active senior or one who needs accessibility for a walker or wheelchair--now or in the future.
5. Private homes in senior cohousing are augmented by common facilities which are shared by all residents and include such amenities as a common house, a community garden, common open areas and walking paths, community hobby areas, and other features that are important to the cohousing residents.
6. Common facilities are planned and built using universal design to assure use by residents with all levels of physical ability.
7. Residents manage their project after they move-in and in a few projects, residents manage the project from the beginning.
8. Leadership is shared by residents. No one person from the community leads the project, although consultants are often hired during the planning and building stage.
9. The community itself is not normally a source of income for the seniors. There is no shared income in the community--each senior family has its own outside sources of income.
10. Structures are one story unless an elevator is provided, although second story units are sometimes included for the living quarters to home health aides.
DFW
Ecovillages
Retirement or Intergenerational
Green Housing and Villages
in many areas of
Dallas-Fort Worth.
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