Imagine an innovative elder culture that approaches looming issues in sustainability and health care in an entirely new way. Our aim is to provide the mutual support to flourish, living in an optimal range of human functioning for the rest of our lives. Canadian Senior Cohousing combines the well-established international model of senior cohousing with new ideas for active aging here in Canada.
CBC radio featured Canadian Senior Cohousing on 26 Jan. 2012. Click here to listen.
Click here to read what The Globe and Mail wrote about us 1 June 2012.
Senior Living Magazine featured cohousing communities planned for Victoria and Sooke BC in Feb 2013
The Sooke News Mirror wrote about Harbourside and Royal Roads University’s course on March 6, 2013.
As a baby boomer myself and friends have been discussing a co housing situation for a few years now. It was with great interest that I read this article in today’s Victoria Times Colonist.
This is a concept that many of my friends have kicked around. Would you be able to share information to get us started. I read the article in the Times Colonist today.
There is a need.
Janet
I have just finished reading Rosa Harris-Adler’s Life Lines column in today’s Times Colonist Newspaper about Canadian Senior Cohousing referring to your new website.
Congratulations for initiating discussion and information within your newly formed group.
As a Senior soon to turn 80, your article is of real interest. Living in a condo in Victoria has worked out well for me and my husband for the past 13 years. However, my husband became seriously ill this past winter but most fortunately has recovered for how long, I don’t know.
Our children may put on the pressure to move closer to where the live which for both are on nearly opposite ends of Canada. I would naturally prefer to remain in greater Victoria. It may be very lonely to be on my own should it happen.
I look forward to reading more about your ideas,
Janet Kalkman
I am a member of a co-housing group called Fernwood Urban Village. We are not limiting ourselves to seniors, but our membership does include seniors and our average age is probably – wild guess – 55.
We have property in Fernwood, and a development plan which is now before city hall for zoning changes. Our plan is for 31 units in four buildings, with food gardens and indoor common areas. Our big push is for reducing our collective footprint. We welcome new members. See our website http://www.fernwoodurbanvillage.ca for more.
Beverly Vreeswijk
I also read the article by Rosa Harris-Adler and I have been interested in co-housing for a long time but haven’t seen anything in Winnipeg at all. I belonged to a group many years ago but it never moved into planning stages. I hope the time is right now. If no one begins a process, nothing happens. I hoped someone else would begin but perhaps it has to begin with me and maybe that way, I’ll find others out there who are interested.
This is a response to Jane Kimak in Winnipeg. I might also be interested in senior co-housing. I live in my own home, but I’m in the initial stages of researching what my next move could be. I don’t anticipate moving for at least another 8 years.
I would love to get together with other people in Winnipeg to discuss this option.
Andrea Mahalek
It appears I am coming to this website a year later. As a 67 year old semi retired woman currently living in rural Saskatchewan on a limited budget, I too am looking to a move in the next year or two. With my family in Winnipeg, my hopes of relocating to that city or vicinity is of great interest to me.
Has there been any progress Jane Kimak since last year? Might I be of assistance?
Karin