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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1734
igaa057.1734
Abstracts
Session 5015 (Symposium)
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Intergenerational Homesharing: Community Cohered by Story
Wenrick Rachel  Kaschock Kirsten  
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”536 536
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
Drexel’s Writers Room is a university-community literary arts program engaged in creative placemaking and art for social justice. Since 2014, our work has focused on two major themes: how we, as a community of writers ages 18-80, can create and connect through story; and how together we can address some of the changes we are seeing in the local neighborhood around Drexel’s campus. This presentation will provide an overview of how the method of co-creation, core to our program since its inception, has allowed us to develop the concept for a writers house and intergenerational homesharing network as an aging-in-place and anti-displacement strategy; build the extensive cross-sector partner network needed to implement it, and earn crucial neighborhood and institutional support. The goal is for attendees to leave with ideas for how this concept might be adapted in their own communities.