Cohousing communities help prevent social isolation
Groups in Denmark and the U.S. are choosing to live in intentionally intergenerational communities, which emerged to strengthen social ties between aging seniors and their younger counterparts...
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SASKIA DE MELKER:This is the regular dinner scene at Saettedammen, a co-housing community 45 minutes outsideDenmark’s capital of Copenhagen.Stig Brinck, an architect, and his wife, an artist, and the teenage daughters they’veraised here, are responsible for tonight’s meal…for themselves and 20 neighbors inthe common house.STIG BRINCK:We eat together four times a week, for those who want to participate.SASKIA DE MELKER:What’s it like cooking for 25 people?How do you do that?STIG BRINCK:First of all, we have a kitchen that’s capable for it.So we have the tools to do it.That’s very important.SASKIA DE MELKER:Communal meals are a staple at Saettedammen, where 71 people live in 28 houses clusteredaround shared recreational and outdoor spaces — walkways, ga...
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SASKIA DE MELKER:This is the regular dinner scene at Saettedammen, a co-housing community 45 minutes outsideDenmark’s capital of Copenhagen.Stig Brinck, an architect, and his wife, an artist, and the teenage daughters they’veraised here, are responsible for tonight’s meal…for themselves and 20 neighbors inthe common house.STIG BRINCK:We eat together four times a week, for those who want to participate.SASKIA DE MELKER:What’s it like cooking for 25 people?How do you do that?STIG BRINCK:First of all, we have a kitchen that’s capable for it.So we have the tools to do it.That’s very important.SASKIA DE MELKER:Communal meals are a staple at Saettedammen, where 71 people live in 28 houses clusteredaround shared recreational and outdoor spaces — walkways, ga...
