Housing and Community
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Housing and connection to community are challenges women face as they age.
As women age, their connection to community, family, and friends is important, but housing is one of the challenges that threatens that connection. Housing options offering services and support needed by older adults may remove women from their communities. But this can lead to isolation – this is especially true for women of color and women from marginalized communities.
Aging Matters is a local public television program presented by WNPT
Housing and Community
Special | 2mVideo has Closed Captions
As women age, their connection to community, family, and friends is important, but housing is one of the challenges that threatens that connection. Housing options offering services and support needed by older adults may remove women from their communities. But this can lead to isolation – this is especially true for women of color and women from marginalized communities.
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Housing is one of the biggest challenges that we face because our housing stock wasn't designed for people to live this long.
How can we adapt existing housing stock and how can we build new housing stock?
We wanna see communities that are age integrated where there is housing for people of all ages, and where people can naturally make intergenerational connections.
- The connection to your community and your family and friends is so important.
And social isolation can be a really big problem.
- It's very important to have the relationship with your family and with your friends because women find themselves being more at home by themselves because their spouses have, you know, have passed on.
We find that more women are left by themselves.
Our children often have moved to other, out of the city.
So it's just so important to have some connection to friends or neighbors or somebody.
It helps for safety reasons and for memory and just to have somebody to call on if you need somebody.
- Women of color and people who are coming from marginalized communities when you lift them out of those communities sometimes you don't have kind of that cultural connection and so you might be putting them in a place where people don't acknowledge kind of their background and their experiences and that can be really isolating for people.
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Aging Matters is a local public television program presented by WNPT