I thought this was a really cool idea.
Another idea catching on around the country is the village, a grassroots organization that is run by the aging for the aging.
Susan McWhinney-Morse, 76, helped start Beacon Hill Village, an organization in her Boston community where those in the neighborhood age 50 or older pay $110 to $640 a year to join a village. The membership price depends on the person's income and gets a member help with everything from shopping for groceries to participation in an exercise class.
"I often think that what gets older people down about living in their own homes are the little things," McWhinney-Morse said. "Like who's going to shovel your snow? Who's going to change the light bulb on top of my stairwell? Who's going to fix the leaky faucet?"
Today, the village movement is exploding with at least 48 other groups started across the nation and more than 600 in development.
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