co-housing

Imagine an extended-family community -- minus your mother-in-law -- where like-minded friends are your neighbors. You regularly share meals, birthday celebrations and a lifestyle vision, yet your living space is private. A collaborative-housing complex, with people you like. That lifestyle is...

Cohousing, the current incarnation of what we Baby Boomers used to call communal living, turns out to be a growing senior living trend. Both in Denmark, where co-housing originated in the 1970's, and in the United States where the model has been gaining ground, senior interest is on the...