Here is what Cheryl Noble, producer of the local, award winning program “Cafe Community” wrote to WCL members Dick Shannon and Magdalene Jaeckle after their appearance on the show:
You and Magdalene were brilliant! Thank you so much. You were great guests, and did a great job.
Read this great story about senior cohousing in The New York Times: The New Old Age Column, published on Aug. 22.
Wolf Creek Lodge going up is an exciting site and the local community has noticed. Here’s what The Union ran in their paper today.
Uncommon sight: Residential construction in Grass Valley
Many seniors have expressed their desire to age in place and remain in a familiar environment and friendly community, AARP studies show, and now a fairly recent phenomenon that seeks to promote just this is emerging in the shape of senior co-housing communities. The philosophy of co-housing is simple, says a recent Sacramento Bee article: Share and share alike
Now Grass Valley’s Wolf Creek Lodge, with 30 residences designed for older adults, is on track to open next summer. It will be the country’s fourth elder co-housing complex, but according to the Co-housing Association of the United States, another dozen are in the planning stages.
I’m just finishing the collection of essays called “Audacious Aging” which I know a number of our Wolf Creek Lodge members have read. How perfect for senior cohousers! I was intrigued by many of the essays and would like to explore further. I hope after we move in next year, we can have discussions and […]
In a time of sweeping funding cuts to senior services—the recent federal budget belt-tightening cut 23.5 percent from the Community Development Block Grants program which funds many senior programs—the message is becoming clear that we need to take aging into our own hands. And we’d better hurry because the number of seniors is about to skyrocket. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 1990 there were 31 million Americans over 65. In 2009 there were 39 million. By 2050, the senior population is expected to double to 79 million, which raises the question: if we can’t afford to support seniors now, what will we do then?
Wolf Creek Lodge Cohousing will be have a table Friday evening and all day Saturday at See Jane Do’s annual Passion into Action Conference this weekend at the Holiday Inn Express in Grass Valley, CA.
Wolf Creek Lodge, a new cohousing development under construction in Grass Valley, is being created by a group of seniors who want to create their own unique life style for the second half of their lives.
We call it aging-in-community.
