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Co-Housing: Living With Your Mates in Retirement. 24ÌýJan 2008
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Is it a viable option for spending out your twilight years?

Instead of old age in a care home, why not club together with friends, buy a big house and live there together in your dotage? Pie in the sky? Or a viable alternative to an old age in a wing backed chair watching Countdown?ÌýÌýÌý
Living asÌýa mutually supportive group combining self-contained accommodation with common space is known asÌýCo-Housing and it's becoming increasinglyÌýpopular.ÌýÌýÌýJenni is joined byJane Oulton whoÌýtogether with several friends foundedÌýThe Lifetime Community Project withÌýthe aim of developing a co-housing retirement communityÌýand Maria Brenton, Consultant to The Older Women’s Co-Housing project (OWCH) based in London.




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