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Hopscotch and the Art of Making Friends

March 27, 2017 by Annamarie 4 Comments

Hopscotch

Hopscotch. We played the game every day after school. We played it on the sidewalks and in the playgrounds outside the eighteen-floor brick building that was our home in Brooklyn, New York. We played as a way to hang out with each other. We were friends. We were friends because we were the same age […]

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Filed Under: Keeping Good Housemates, Seniors Tagged With: commentary, companionship, roommates, seniors, social life

Solterra Co-Housing Paves the Way for Senior Aging-in-Place

February 26, 2017 by Annamarie 16 Comments

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When Shelley’s father was no longer capable of living on his own, Shelley went looking for a way for him to live. She knew that an institutional setting would not work for him. She says, “Dad had to be in control. He needed to make all his own decisions.” Shelley, who is a Canadian, researched […]

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Shared Housing For Seniors—Solutions for Income and Companionship

November 29, 2016 by Annamarie 9 Comments

Arnie calls her home “my accordion house” and laughs. It’s a huge Victorian building in the center of Concord, New Hampshire. Arnie inherited it from an aunt who lived on the second floor until her death. When her husband died at an early age, she was suddenly a widow of very limited means. Committed to […]

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Downsizing by Buying a House Together

November 21, 2016 by Annamarie 2 Comments

Downsizing together Judy and Joyce

Downsizing is one way to age in place. But it doesn’t always mean leaving a multi-bedroom house to move into a one-room studio. Judy and her husband bought a house with Joyce and her husband as a way for both couples to downsize. Each couple had raised families in large country homes with big gardens […]

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When Genna Met Sally—How Homesharing Might Start

July 27, 2016 by Annamarie 9 Comments

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This is a multi-part story written to demonstrate how the resources available on this site can work for you. Genna, 64, had lived in her four-bedroom home for more than twenty years. She bought it with her then husband and when they divorced she got the house. Now she was an empty-nester with children living […]

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Filed Under: Finding Good Housemates, Seniors, When Genna Met Sally Tagged With: companionship, home-sharing, housemate, interviewing, seniors, sharing housing

An Atmosphere of Kindness and Gentleness

June 7, 2016 by Annamarie 2 Comments

Diana Kindness and Gentleness

“Do you see my glasses?” asks Diana, 80 plus, of her home-mate Rob who is easily 30 years younger. “Yup” he says as he gets them and hands them to her. There is a kindness and gentleness between them. How It Started Rob moved into Diana’s house when she was recovering from hip surgery. Diana […]

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Living Alone is Overrated

October 23, 2015 by Annamarie 1 Comment

Cathy

“Living alone is overrated,” says Cathy, 51, who spent thirteen years of her adult life in a sweet, small, single-family house in a small town in New Hampshire near her family. She now lives with her parents and a brother in a large Victorian house with a large barn. It’s the house she grew up […]

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