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How cohousing communities can help seniors sustain quality of life
August 7, 2020/
Could senior cooperative housing, a model gaining popularity in states with aging populations, be the solution to alleviating social isolation and population loss in Montana’s rural small towns?
In Montana’s rural counties, where demographic trends show large numbers of young people leaving for the state’s fast-growing urban areas, the need for elderly housing solutions is going to become increasingly important.
Montana is the oldest state west of the Mississippi, and demographic projections show the state growing collectively older as more Montanans enter their senior years. The economic, cultural, and personal impacts of that trend present the state and its residents with new challenges and, with those challenges, opportunities.
