Shared Housing

How does shared housing work?

AgeSafe Shared Housing allows active seniors to share housing costs with other like-minded adults in a beautiful home in a nice neighborhood. It’s a great alternative to a crowded apartment or expensive assisted living. 

While each resident may have all the privacy they want in their own rooms, shared accommodations, activities, and meals are typical (and often fun) parts of shared housing which can sometimes require patience and good communication with and between one another. 

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Pros & Cons of Shared Housing:

Pro: A fun, new approach to senior housing – saving money on rent while living in style. 

Pro: Enhancing your social life with like-minded roommates. 

Pro: Accessing exclusive care services to age in place well.

Pro: Opportunities to earn compensation by providing services to other seniors in the community.

Con: Shared housing is not for everyone. It requires the ability to get along well with others, and enjoy shared experiences (think your dorm college years). 

Con: Privacy. Individual rooms are private, but shared accommodations, activities, and meals are typical parts of shared housing which require patience and good communication to make it work. 

Pro/Con: Shared responsibilities. Residents participate in setting house rules, shopping, cleaning, meals planning/preparation, and the scheduling of housing areas for family events.