The fight for older women’s cohousing
Five years ago, Jayne Nelson watched her 94 year-old mother die. ‘She refused to leave home and she complained of loneliness all the time. It was so painful to watch. She somehow felt my sister and I should be able to sort it out, although neither of us lived nearby. Knowing what I’d felt about [...]
Time for us to move in together?
Don’t know your neighbours? No one to rely on? Find the area outside your front door forbidding? Maybe you need cohousing. Two of the world’s leading architects of cohousing were at Nesta yesterday as part of its Age Unlimited programme, to talk about a movement that began in Denmark, has spread to the US, and is [...]