Danish Building Research Institute

Danish Institute of Gerontology

Institute of Local Government Studies

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Study of the well-being of older people in co-housing.

In Denmark, an increasing number of middle-aged and older people are interested in living everyday life closer to their neighbours than is customary, in the form of co-housing communities. People living in a co-housing community may be defined as a group of people living in a type of housing with an agreed social network where residents participate in certain activities, practical tasks and/or facilities, and furthermore consider themselves to be a co-housing group. In the context of this report, two types of co-housing communities or schemes have been defined as people living in a network based on their housing environment 
 

• either with several generations – but non-family: inter-generational - called age-integrated co-housing community.

• or with other older people in a co-housing group established specifically for ageing – called senior co-housing schemes.