In summertime the Blom family often shares meals outside in the garden. Zoelmond, the Netherlands, 21 May 2020.
The Old Normal explores co-housing as a solution to the challenges of providing elderly care, the rising costs of living, living sustainably, and feelings of loneliness and isolation.
There are currently about 100-150 official co-housing projects in the Netherlands, located in 60 municipalities. These are the type of projects where groups of people live together, sharing communal living spaces. Co-housing structures where people live together with family are not counted in the above statistics, but it is also referred to as co-housing, or co-living.
Els (left) helps her husband John, together with her daughter in law Lisa Wade (41) and granddaughter Norah (1), on 25 September 2020.
A group of older men and women sit and visit together during the organized Friday-night drinks on 28 February 2020 in Culemborg, the Netherlands.
Simon Douw plays a game together with his mother Nel Douw and his son Jonas at the dinner table in their co-housing structure in Westzaan, the Netherlands, on 18 October 2020.
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