How to make your senior years healthy, safe, social, and stimulating. 
 "Architect and author Chuck Durrett's recently released book Senior Cohousing Handbook comes at a time of high interest in greening, sustainable housing and affordable living concerns. Durrett's new book is a comprehensive guide for baby boomers wishing to continue vibrant, active lifestyles." - EPR Real Estate News 
 "Make your senior years safe and socially fun with the idea of senior cohousing and a book on the topic that shows how seniors can custom-build their neighborhood to fit their needs. This is housing built by seniors, not for them, and emphasizes independence and social networking. Any library strong in gerontology or social science and many a general lending library needs this. - James A. Cox, The Midwest Book Review 
 "As a Baby Boomer, I've joked for a few years that we'll all end up living communally again because Social Security will be broke...This is one of the better ways to envision it."-- Sacramento Bee 
 No matter how rich life is in youth and middle age, the elder years can bring on increasing isolation and loneliness as social connections lessen, especially if friends and family members move away. 
 Senior cohousing fills a niche for this demographic―the healthy, educated, and proactive adults who want to live in a social and environmentally vibrant community. These seniors are already wanting to ward off the aging process, so they are unlikely to want to live in assisted housing. Senior cohousing revolves around custom-built neighborhoods organized by the seniors themselves in order to fit in with their real needs, wants, and aspirations for health, longevity, and quality of life. 
 Senior Cohousing is a comprehensive guide to joining or creating a cohousing project, written by the US leader in the field. The author deals with all the psychological and logistical aspects of senior cohousing and addresses common concerns, fears, and misunderstandings. He emphasizes the many positive benefits of cohousing, including: 
<ul>
<li> Better physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health </li>
<li> Friendships and accessible social contact </li>
<li> Safety and security </li>
<li> Affordability </li>
<li> Shared resources </li>
</ul>
 Successful aging requires control of one’s life, and today's generation of seniors―the baby boomers―will find that this book holds a compelling vision for their future. 
 Charles Durrett is a principal at McCamant &amp; Durrett in Nevada City, California, a firm that specializes in affordable cohousing. He co-authored the groundbreaking Cohousing with his wife and business partner, Kathryn McCamant.

The Senior Cohousing Handbook: A Community Approach to Independent Living, 2nd Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Charles Durrett

Social Sciences

New Society Publishers - New Society Publishers

Book by McCamant, Kathryn M.; Durrett, Charles R.

Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Kathryn M. McCamant

Crafts & Hobbies

Habitat / Ten Speed Press

A movement that began in Europe has taken hold in North America because it provides some real answers for the increasing number of people who stop to look at where and how they live and at their impact on the environment. Cohousing is a way for a group of people to work together to develop places to live that offer both privacy and community with the values of an old-fashioned neighborhood-safety, independence, mutual concern. Many of these new ventures are up and running and many more are in the planning stages. Delivering more bang for the buck, this innovative approach to housing is challenging the formidable housing problems we face, and it is succeeding.

Business & Money

Ellen Hertzman

Economics

Ten Speed Press+

Cohousing groups often struggle for years until they find a site and gain the momentum they need to become a bricks-and-mortar cohousing community. Would-be cohousers have been asking McCamant & Durrett for this information for years, and we have finally published this book on how to find, assess, secure, and purchase a great site for cohousing.This book gives cohousing groups (as well as other land-hunting groups  like non-profit housing developers and ecovillage founders) the benefit of our twenty-five years of experience developing cohousing, as well as the experience of a long-time site acquisitions manager for a major capital investment firm.

Finding a Site: Cohousing From the Ground Up

Habitat Press

Cohousing Communities

Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

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