People who think about how we’re going to adapt to lower-energy living arrangements often miss that the U.S. continues to gray rapidly. Given that we’ve had almost sixty years of radical suburbanization and cross-country relocation, sundering the extended family networks that once provided child and elder care, we’re in a pickle when it comes to figuring out how to care for elders.
Here’s an encouraging story about a new facility that really seems to get it. My question is why we aren’t thinking about these for just-getting-starteds and young adults … we could call it co-housing …
