New Kind of Commune for Elderly
February 28, 2006, Jennie Winhall
February 28, 2006, Jennie Winhall
They are unlikely revolutionaries. Bearing walkers and canes, a veritable Merck Manual of ailments among them, the 12 old friends - average age 80 - looked as though they should have been sitting down to a game of Scrabble, not pioneering a new kind of commune.
Opting for old age on their own terms, they were starting a new chapter in their lives as residents of Glacier Circle, the country's first self-planned housing development for the elderly - a community they had conceived and designed themselves, right down to its purple gutters.
Read more and see the video in the New York Times February 27, 2006 (registration required but free)
CATEGORY: AGEING
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