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I want to age in place with robots but co-living may be okay too
The writer tries out co-living and, despite not being sociable, wouldn’t rule it out as an option in her later years.
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Commune@Henderson, which officially opened in 2025, is the first inter-generational co-living concept introduced by the Singapore Land Authority that houses seniors and younger people.
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At 3am, it felt as if someone was drilling into my skull, then thumping my head on a table with gusto to make my liquefied brain slosh around. But the noise actually came from a cheerful housemate blending a smoothie – stopping to thump the blender on a counter to make the ingredients settle, then blending it again while shaking the appliance – repeating this almost nightly.
It was a dark cocoa and honeyed berry smoothie, and I knew this because bits of the ingredients were left smeared on the kitchen counter and floor. Welcome to co-living, where you have to take the bitter with the sweet.
