Aging in a Community of Mutual Support: The Emergence of an Elder Intentional Cohousing Community in the United States

Anne P. Glass, PhD, Assistant Director, Institute of Gerontology, College of Public Health.

Both the ElderSpirit Community and this research have received grant support from the Retirement Research Foundation. The author recognizes individuals for their help in making ElderSpirit Community a reality, including Dene Peterson, Catherine Rumschlag, and Kathy Hutson. Monica Appleby, Anne Leibig, and Jean Marie Luce worked with the author in 2001 to create the model of late-life spirituality included in this article. The author also thanks Monica Appleby, a resident of the ElderSpirit Community, for opening up her home to the author during on-site research and for coordinating the interview schedule, and all of the residents of the ElderSpirit Community who generously agreed to give of their time to participate in the study. Finally, the author thanks Marilyn Schroeder for her assistance with data management and helpful comments on the manuscript.