Three Innovations in Intergenerational Housing

intergenerationA few years back, I wrote a blog about the promise of retirement villages as a potential solution to the housing needs of a rapidly ageing population in the UK. I’m still a big believer in retirement villages, having witnessed, first hand, their benefits for tackling loneliness and enhancing well-being in the final years of my mother’s life.

But since then, a variety of innovative ideas have sprung up that are taking senior housing to the next level…so to speak. Here are three promising innovations in senior housing, all three of which are rooted in the concept of intergenerational living:

Read the rest of this post over on The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing blog

Image: Photo by Rod Long on Unsplash

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