Norma, now 95, has been living with housemates for ten years. She finds her them through Home Share Now , a matching service based in Barre, Vermont. She knew about home share programs because she had had an aunt in the Burlington Vermont area who had been very content with a housemate she had through […]
Read More...Retirement Options for LGBT Community
On Next Avenue, an article, Shared Housing Advice for Gays and Lesbians, on shared housing as a good option for the LGBT community. I’m glad to see other people writing about this option. Joan M. Burda writes that there is prejudice against LGBT in some assisted living centers and nursing homes. She also refers to […]
Read More...Staying Home By Sharing Housing
Staying home in her house, but tired of living alone, widow Joyce Daniels decided to share her housing. For help she was able to turn to the Vermont-based HomeShare program, a program that matches people looking for housing with those who have housing. A 2012 article in the Burlington Free Press described in more detail how […]
Read More...Meet the Homesharers
Unlikely homesharers are people of really different ages and walks of life who are matched with people who need help living at home. This is the title in the Guardian in the UK of descriptions of different arrangements. In many cases, the person needing care had an accident or chronic disease. Click on the link […]
Read More...Comfort for the Young and Old
Homeshare Scheme Brings Comfort to the Young and Old is the title of a really nice article by Simon Murphy in The Guardian about a HomeShare arrangement in London. It highlights the benefits of arrangement by describing how it works for 97-year old Barbara Clapham and 26-year old Beth Cooke. Beth has a low rent […]
Read More...NJ Non Profit Matches Residents
In a nice article by Kristine Snodgrass, descriptions how a home share program in NJ benefits residents of Somerset and Hunterdon Counties. If you live in those counties you might be able to use their services. There should be more home share programs available. You can find out if one is in your part of […]
Read More...NPR Day-to-Day Report on HomeShare
NPR (National Public Radio) discusses the growth of home sharing arrangements in the US. This three-minute piece describes the Vermont HomeShare program and the success of two different arrangements.
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