<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" > <channel> <title>Village Movement Archives - Nancy Rhine, MS, LMFT, CPG</title> <atom:link href="https://www.nancyrhine.com/tag/village-movement/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://www.nancyrhine.com/tag/village-movement/</link> <description>Specialist in Issues of Midlife & Older Adults</description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:47:26 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1</generator> <site xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">35362792</site> <item> <title>Have You Heard of NORC’s = Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities</title> <link>https://www.nancyrhine.com/2012/06/15/have-you-heard-of-norcs-naturally-occurring-retirement-communities/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Rhine, MS, LMFT]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:59:06 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[General]]></category> <category><![CDATA[aging in place]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Beacon Hill Village]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fredda Vladeck]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NORC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seniors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[St Louis NORC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Village Movement]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nancyrhine.com/?p=1864</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>NORC’s = Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities   Not Exactly like the Village Model   Recently, I’ve been involved with the Village Movement and working on organizing a new Village in my home town. I’ve been a fan of the Villages idea for years since I learned about the Beacon Hill Village where the movement started […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.nancyrhine.com/2012/06/15/have-you-heard-of-norcs-naturally-occurring-retirement-communities/">Have You Heard of NORC’s = Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.nancyrhine.com">Nancy Rhine, MS, LMFT, CPG</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1><a href="http://www.nancyrhine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/NORC-image1.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1869" title="NORC image" src="http://www.nancyrhine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/NORC-image1-300x181.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="181" /></a></h1> <h1></h1> <h1>NORC’s = Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities</h1> <p> </p> <h2><span style="font-size: 16px;">Not Exactly like the Village Model</span></h2> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Recently, I’ve been involved with the Village Movement and working on organizing a new Village in my home town. I’ve been a fan of the Villages idea for years since I learned about the<strong><a href="http://www.beaconhillvillage.org/"> Beacon Hill Village</a></strong> where the movement started in 2002.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 16px;">The Village model involves a local grassroots, nonprofit Village forming where members join for annual fees ranging from $200-900 across the country and then have access to a range of services. Members join in activities together, recommend service providers to each other, are provided with a very well screened list of other service providers, provide volunteer services for each other, and can receive a host of volunteer services themselves.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 16px;">The NORC’s, from what I understand, are a little different. They range in shape and size across the country so each of them are a little different, too, reflecting their communities and members. There is no membership fee so the NORC’s are usually affiliated with a not for profit organization, government grants, donors and other fund-raising sources that allow them to offer services for no charge to members.</span></p> <p> </p> <h2><span style="font-size: 16px;">NORC Movement Founder Fredda Vladeck</span></h2> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 16px;">The founder of the first NORC is Fredda Vladeck whose wonderful interview I read yesterday: </span><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.norcblueprint.org/uploads/File/DesignerBuilderFV.pdf.pdf">Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities: An Interview with Fredda Vladeck. </a> </span></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Fredda was a geriatric social worker in NYC in the mid-1980’s and began to notice a lot of older people coming in to the ER with issues that could have easily been addressed – and prevented – at home if they had had the support and knowledge.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Many of these people lived at Penn South Mutual Redevelopment Houses in Chelsea, a cooperative housing development built in 1962 by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. There were 6,200 residents with 5,000 them seniors. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Many of them were old labor organizers who had devoted their lives to the unions and so did not have traditional family support systems. Fredda designed a unique program to empower these people to age in place – her program became known as a NORC. Now there are dozens in NYC alone and hundreds across the US.</span></p> <p> </p> <h2><span style="font-size: 16px;">NORC WOW’s</span></h2> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 16px;">The NORC’s are not just located in housing complexes, there are also NORC WOW’s – Naturally Occuring Retirement Communities Without Walls in communities such as the<strong> <a href="http://www.jewishinstlouis.org/page.aspx?id=58980">St Louis NORC</a></strong> which consists of a 3 square mile neighborhood. NORC’s typically have over 50% of the population as older adults and can result from:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;">In-migration: a location where retirees move because of things like access to services and quality of life,</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;">Evolution: where a community naturally ages together, and</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;">Out-migration: where younger working folks tend to move to other locations leaving older people behind.</span></li> </ul> <div></div> <div><span style="font-size: 17px;">For more information about this fascinating “aging in place” movement, click on <strong><a href="http://www.norcs.org/">http://www.norcs.org/ </a> .</strong></span></div> <p>The post <a href="https://www.nancyrhine.com/2012/06/15/have-you-heard-of-norcs-naturally-occurring-retirement-communities/">Have You Heard of NORC’s = Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.nancyrhine.com">Nancy Rhine, MS, LMFT, CPG</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">1864</post-id> </item> </channel> </rss>