What LGBTQ Elders Need to Thrive
My Lesbian and Gay friends and relatives have experienced a lot of struggles over the decades: discrimination and bullying during most of [...]
Assertiveness: Advocacy for Self and Others
Ellen Ryan In my research career, I identified the use of baby-talk with frail older adults (Elder Speak), perhaps intended to be [...]
Kawartha Commons Peterborough Cohousing
In Peterborough, Ontario, 33 full and associate members have committed to planning and building their own cohousing community. Building cohousing is different [...]
Intergenerational Reading Circle Workshop
A summer course in literary gerontology brought students together with older adults to form an intergenerational reading circle. Blog post by [...]
Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities
Oasis. A new senior driven model for social and health supports located within the buildings they live in, started in Kingston, now [...]
One Shared House – Co-living
When she was 5 years old Irene Pereyra’s mom answered an ad: “Community looking for parent with 5 year old child”. There [...]
Japan’s Caring Tickets
I first read about this uniquely Japanese system of mutual care support called Fureai Kippu or "Caring Tickets" in a book on [...]
Nightclub for the Elderly
“We’re the only club event in the world where someone was rushed to hospital because they’d forgotten to take their drugs." “When [...]
Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities – the OASIS Model
I recently received an invitation to an OpenLab webinar series about innovative approaches to aging-in-place. The first, “Taking Charge: New models for [...]
Co-housing Project for Low-income Renters
In March of 2016 while visiting family in Sebastopol California I dropped by Petaluma Avenue Homes, a Cohousing project featured in a [...]