#018: Aging Well Together with Margaret Critchlow

Inside Community Podcast

Margaret Critchlow, PhD, taught anthropology at York University in Toronto, Canada for 25 years before retiring to Vancouver Island. She loved learning from villagers in the south Pacific islands of Vanuatu and from residents of Canadian housing co-ops. She has written or co-authored more than 50 academic article and 7 books. She was a founding member of the first senior cohousing community in western Canada, Harbourside Cohousing, where she has lived with her husband since it opened in Jan 2016. Margaret enjoys sharing her enthusiasm for cohousing with people of all ages, independently and as a Community Building Facilitator with Cohousing Development Consulting. Her online courses, “Planning for aging in community” and “Is cohousing for you?” have supported people to better understand what they are getting into when they join a cohousing community.

Margaret will be teaching the FIC Course Exploring Community for Aging Well⁠⁠⁠ 5 weeks starting June 23rd

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LINKS that Margaret Mentioned:

Karin Wells' CBC radio documentary "It's Their Life" about how Denmark is changing ways to care for the elderly. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2304600412

CBC Radio documentaries by Karin Wells about Harbourside Cohousing 2016

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/hisham-matar-judge-lynn-smith-co-housing-spotlight-investigation-1.3732577/b-c-seniors-build-a-new-way-to-age-in-place-1.3737140?x-eu-country=false
2018

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-edition-june-10-2018-1.4695635/a-b-c-experiment-in-cohousing-has-become-an-adventure-in-co-caring-1.4695653
Anne P. Glass "Aging better together, intentionally" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352846544_Aging_Better_Together_Intentionally

Elder Spirit Community, Abingdon, VA https://elderspirit.org
Harbourside Cohousing, Sooke, BChttps://www.harbourside.ca
Quimper Village, Port Townsend, WAhttp://www.quimpervillage.com/
West Wind Harbour Cohousinghttps://www.westwindharbour.ca

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