With a Little Help from Our Friends: Creating Community as We Grow Older

by Beth Baker

Book Overview

In this book, an award-winning journalist tells the story of people devising innovative ways to live as they approach retirement, options that ensure they are surrounded by a circle of friends, family, and neighbors. Based on visits and interviews at many communities around the country, Beth Baker weaves a rich tapestry of grassroots alternatives, some of them surprisingly affordable:

- a mobile home cooperative in small-town Oregon
- a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826519881
• ISBN13: 9780826519887
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"