Workshop moment: participants in the first AIC Collaboratory weekend
Imagine … living in a home you love … in a neighborhood you love … throughout your growing older years. From go-go healthy aging through the Deep Aging ™ years when need and frailty could dictate a move to a nursing home … imagine instead living in the bosom of your community. Is that possible?
At Mid Atlantic Cohousing we believe cohousing has the untapped capacity to become a more hands-on caring community for members from the cradle to the grave. With imagination, coordination of existing resources and formation of new partnerships, we believe we can expand our ability to care for our members. Moreover, by sharing the care for our elders, we believe we open ourselves to a deeper, richer experience of being human.
On April 8-10, 2016, 22 individuals representing eight cohousing communities and several unaffiliated cohousing enthusiasts came together to imagine and to answer that very question of possibility at the initial meeting of the first-ever, groundbreaking Aging in Community Collaboratory held at Takoma Village Cohousing in Washington, DC.
A Collaboratory “is a place where people can think, work, learn together, and invent their respective futures.” A Collaboratory stresses mutuality among professionals, institutions and the participants themselves.
Mid Atlantic Cohousing and Aging Better, Together have teamed up to “crack the nut” of aging in community using the collaboratory process. This year-long endeavor is about innovating new paradigms for care as people age in community. In the atmosphere of mutuality, the collaboratory will allow all parties – participants, leaders, facilitators and supporting institutions – to custom design a co-care program for individual communities that uniquely addresses their particular cohousing circumstances.
On April 8-10, 2016, 22 individuals representing eight cohousing communities and several unaffiliated cohousing enthusiasts came together to imagine and to answer that very question of possibility at the initial meeting of the first-ever, groundbreaking Aging in Community Collaboratory held at Takoma Village Cohousing in Washington, DC.
A Collaboratory “is a place where people can think, work, learn together, and invent their respective futures.” A Collaboratory stresses mutuality among professionals, institutions and the participants themselves.
Mid Atlantic Cohousing and Aging Better, Together have teamed up to “crack the nut” of aging in community using the collaboratory process. This year-long endeavor is about innovating new paradigms for care as people age in community. In the atmosphere of mutuality, the collaboratory will allow all parties – participants, leaders, facilitators and supporting institutions – to custom design a co-care program for individual communities that uniquely addresses their particular cohousing circumstances.
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The Aging in Community Collaboratory process was designed, developed and facilitated by Janice Blanchard, MSPH. It is sponsored by Mid Atlantic Cohousing. The Collaboratory will continue throughout 2016 into early 2017 via monthly webinars to further incubate, test, and implement ideas to advance the goal of aging in community. It will conclude with a second weekend in early 2017.
Participating cohousing communities:
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For information contact Ann Zabaldo 202.546.4654; zabaldo@earthlink.net
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| top_12_characteristics_of_cohousing.pdf |
| top_9_reasons_to_consider_urban_cohousing.pdf |
| some_cohousing_resouces_19.pdf |
| blanchard__cv_2015.doc |
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