New Ground housing development in High Barnet, north London, is not an old people’s home — it is Britain’s first all-female cohousing community for older people. Ten years ago, 26 women ranging in age from their early fifties to their mid-eighties moved into this three-storey brick block, which they had co-designed on the site of an old convent school tucked behind the local high street. They come from vastly different walks of life but are united by one radical idea: what if we didn’t have to g

At New Ground in High Barnet, north London, 26 women over 50 have created the UK’s first cohousing community for older women — a purpose-built estate designed to help them live independently, avoid isolation and age on their own terms. Their story is told in their book, Our Later Years: Shared Wisdom on Ageing Powerfully Together. We went inside New Ground to see how this pioneering group of women live, share space and grow older together. Click the link to read more #women #london #housing #new