Senior cohousing communities - an alternative approach for the UK?

Cohousing is a way of living both ‘apart and together’ with a collaborative group of neighbours who know each other and sign up to certain values. They work to develop the social capital that creates and maintains a sense of community. Senior cohousing needs policy makers to recognise the benefits for older people of living in this way and to work to remove the obstacles that impede them. For senior cohousing to become an established and viable choice for people approaching old age, it needs to develop a broad infrastructure of support in the UK.