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Why Senior Cohousing?

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Senior Cohousing

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What draws people to move in later life? What rationale do they have for leaving behind homes and neighborhoods where they have often lived for decades to set out on a new adventure? An initial step in making this decision is to sort through the all the residential situations that are available, learn their features and make a determination of what you are truly seeking at this point in your life.

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Cummings, S., Kropf, N.P. (2020). Why Senior Cohousing?. In: Senior Cohousing. SpringerBriefs in Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25362-2_4

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