Healthier Lives Across Generations: A Blueprint for Intergenerational Living

The Blueprint is a call to action and a strategic plan designed to promote intentional intergenerational housing and communities that foster meaningful interactions among people of all generations.

Intergenerational living takes many forms. It includes communities that house older adults and younger people with the intention of supporting and strengthening intergenerational relationships, as well as multigenerational households, which can include three or more generations of family living together.

Healthier Lives Across Generations: A Blueprint for Intergenerational Living is focused on intentional intergenerational living, or communities open to people of all ages that have a deliberate focus on fostering intergenerational interaction and relationships. The Blueprint is centered on the need for safe and sustainable housing that improves health and well-being among people with low or moderate incomes who have historically been left out of affordable and accessible living options.

The goal of the Blueprint is to promote intergenerational living that

provides adequately for safety, health, and the basic necessities of life,
promotes programs, policies, and practices that increase cooperation, interaction, interdependence, and understanding between people of different generations, and
enables all ages to share their talents and resources, and to support each other in relationships that benefit both individuals and their community.

This Blueprint is about promoting living options that combat ageism and are infused with programs and architectural design features like common areas and outdoor spaces that facilitate positive interactions and experiences across generations.

The creation of the Blueprint and its release was supported by the RRF Foundation for Aging and the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation. The release event was funded in part by the Cambia Health Foundation. We thank them for their support.