It seems the subject of a TV series, four elderly people who barely know each other decide to live under one roof to pay rent and bills. The hoary version of "Friends" is the latest in American society. Over 60 divorced, no pension in their seventies, parents who can not rely on children: what they do, in an America overwhelmed by the crisis, these people? Join forces and share costs.
Creating a completely new type of living, cheaper and less functional hospice. The phenomenon is particularly common in states that have suffered most of the crisis, New Jersey in the head. Here there are even agencies that help those over 60 to find roommates trustworthy and pleasant. A little 'as it happened to Kane, divorced 64 years age classes, which ten years ago he decided to open the door to anonymous strangers in exchange for a contribution to the costs and a little' company.
One after the other roommate, Kane's life was filled with friends and people you can trust. "After the divorce, I needed a hand to pay the rent - said to Reuters - and I have shared my apartment with seven people. With all I have beautiful friendship." In New Jersey's main trade association dealing with rent is shared between the elderly Homesharing, Inc.
The service is free, everything is based on spontaneous donations and volunteer work. "The demands are continuing to grow, year after year - says the executive director Renee Drell - but the peak we recorded the height of the economic crisis." Older people looking for roommates in the past two years in the U.S.
increased by 19% and the association has grown from 1,610 clients in 2009 to 1,912 in 2010. The applicant-type is a divorced woman aged 50 to 55 years and why it is aimed at Home Sharing services are purely economic. Unless, then, derive benefits from the human and psychological. As in the case of Helen, 80, who hosts home Mrs.
Patty Milano, widow of 54, and the mother of this, eighty years old. "They give me $ 700 a month for two rooms and the shared use of bathroom and kitchen - he says - but the most precious thing for me is their company." This is not just an American phenomenon. On the outskirts of London, a group of elderly living alone stoves founded the "Older Women COHO", a sort of "common" where each tenant has its own mini apartment but shares with other expenses and common areas.
Not far from Vancouver, Canada, a decaying building was renovated and turned into a "house of generations", where families and seniors live together under one roof, cultivating an organic garden and maintaining the common areas. The "cohousing," so it was renamed the universe of these new forms of cohabitation is a phenomenon that affects cross not only the elderly but all those people who, no longer young, do not make it to pay rent on their own.
The phenomenon was born in Denmark in the late '60s and then expanded in Britain, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. In recent years, thanks to the crisis, networks of organizations have sprung up in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Japan. Italy is far from embracing this mentality but in recent years something has moved here too, starting with the birth of the company's services Cohousing.
With reference to the elderly, last year started the project "Living in solidarity", promoted by the associations and Artemisia Auser in Florence, Bagno a Ripoli and Scandicci, which helps people over 60 who have big houses and pensions meager to round hosting for small Students figures out of the office, young couples, posted workers, families of immigrants or women who have fled a violent husband.
Same principle behind the project "Living together", Varese. At Imola also led to the "Condominium solidarity", a facility dedicated to people of normal elderly comprising 13 apartments, which are provided, however, human support and nursing care. An easy way to lend a hand to the elderly.
Without him lose autonomy, freedom and love of life. 
Creating a completely new type of living, cheaper and less functional hospice. The phenomenon is particularly common in states that have suffered most of the crisis, New Jersey in the head. Here there are even agencies that help those over 60 to find roommates trustworthy and pleasant. A little 'as it happened to Kane, divorced 64 years age classes, which ten years ago he decided to open the door to anonymous strangers in exchange for a contribution to the costs and a little' company.
One after the other roommate, Kane's life was filled with friends and people you can trust. "After the divorce, I needed a hand to pay the rent - said to Reuters - and I have shared my apartment with seven people. With all I have beautiful friendship." In New Jersey's main trade association dealing with rent is shared between the elderly Homesharing, Inc.
The service is free, everything is based on spontaneous donations and volunteer work. "The demands are continuing to grow, year after year - says the executive director Renee Drell - but the peak we recorded the height of the economic crisis." Older people looking for roommates in the past two years in the U.S.
increased by 19% and the association has grown from 1,610 clients in 2009 to 1,912 in 2010. The applicant-type is a divorced woman aged 50 to 55 years and why it is aimed at Home Sharing services are purely economic. Unless, then, derive benefits from the human and psychological. As in the case of Helen, 80, who hosts home Mrs.
Patty Milano, widow of 54, and the mother of this, eighty years old. "They give me $ 700 a month for two rooms and the shared use of bathroom and kitchen - he says - but the most precious thing for me is their company." This is not just an American phenomenon. On the outskirts of London, a group of elderly living alone stoves founded the "Older Women COHO", a sort of "common" where each tenant has its own mini apartment but shares with other expenses and common areas.
Not far from Vancouver, Canada, a decaying building was renovated and turned into a "house of generations", where families and seniors live together under one roof, cultivating an organic garden and maintaining the common areas. The "cohousing," so it was renamed the universe of these new forms of cohabitation is a phenomenon that affects cross not only the elderly but all those people who, no longer young, do not make it to pay rent on their own.
The phenomenon was born in Denmark in the late '60s and then expanded in Britain, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. In recent years, thanks to the crisis, networks of organizations have sprung up in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Japan. Italy is far from embracing this mentality but in recent years something has moved here too, starting with the birth of the company's services Cohousing.
With reference to the elderly, last year started the project "Living in solidarity", promoted by the associations and Artemisia Auser in Florence, Bagno a Ripoli and Scandicci, which helps people over 60 who have big houses and pensions meager to round hosting for small Students figures out of the office, young couples, posted workers, families of immigrants or women who have fled a violent husband.
Same principle behind the project "Living together", Varese. At Imola also led to the "Condominium solidarity", a facility dedicated to people of normal elderly comprising 13 apartments, which are provided, however, human support and nursing care. An easy way to lend a hand to the elderly.
Without him lose autonomy, freedom and love of life.
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