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Creating Community

What is "Creating Community?"

 
COMMUNITY emerges when a group of people:
  • Participate in common practices
  • Depend upon one another
  • Make decisions together
  • Identify themselves as something larger than their individual relationships
  • Commit themselves to their own, other’s and the group’s well being.
(From "Creating Community Anywhere," by C. Shaffer and K. Anundsen. 1993, Putnam Publishing, New York.)
  
ELDER COMMUNITIES……are designed to accommodate the particular needs and desires of elders for housing along with opportunities for social, intellectual, physical and spiritual growth and interactions.  This may include the desire to live in an intergenerational community or an age-segregated community,  i.e. retirement community.
 
A LIVABLE COMMUNITY is one that has affordable and appropriate housing, supportive community features and services, adequate mobility options, which together facilitate personal independence and the engagement of residents in civic and social life.
 
By sharing what others are doing, we can inspire and create new models for Philadelphia so that our older population can Age in Place in Community!