Intergenerational Housing, Places and Spaces Network meeting

Monday 3rd March 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Online via Zoom

This session will explore how inclusive spaces can be reimagined to reduce loneliness and social isolation in our communities. Whether that is co-location, co-programming or co-sharing, they all work to facilitate meetings across generational borders and bring people together to create intentional intergenerational activity and build relationships. 
How can we plan our communities to encourage connection and reduce isolation?

Guest Speakers – Savannah Fishel & David Hay

Savannah Fishel: Reimagining how we live together: learning from intergenerational housing models across the US and Australia. Savannah has visited over 50 models of community-orientated housing, such as ecovillages, tiny home villages and cohousing. Fresh from a Churchill Fellowship, she'll be sharing insights from those who have reimagined how we can live more collaboratively, compassionately and sustainably. With a background in health policy and public service design in the UK, she's interested in the power of intergenerational housing to tackle loneliness, bridge generational divides and provide an alternative to an increasingly individualistic society. To learn more, subscribe to her blog at thinkitforward.net/communal-living

David Hay: Founder of Homeshare Scotland, a new organisation that aims to help support elderly people throughout the country with the companionship and household assistance that a more able housemate can offer.  With career experience in residential property letting, hospitality operations and the care sector, David has gained an understanding of a number of industries that all relate to the needs of a Homeshare organisation.  However, it is his recent experience in arranging care and support for his 96 year old father that lead him to discover the concept and then come the belief that a Homeshare organisation could make a big difference to elderly people in Scotland.

Come and join the conversation and book your place below.