What is a Naturally Occurring Retirement Community?

A NORC is a community or neighborhood where residents remain for years, and age as neighbors, until a Naturally Occurring Retirement Community develops. A NORC may refer to a specific apartment building, or a street of old single family homes. Residents would just have stayed and just aged.

It is possible to band together and develop, or seek help to develop, access to services to aid those needing assistance, thereby retaining the highest quality of life for all residents as they age.

To learn more about NORCs:

When the Neighborhood Is the Retirement Village, by Paula Span

Norc vs. Non-norc: evaluation of profiles and impact of naturally occurring retirement communities by Erin c. Coppinger

Website of the NORC Aging in Place Initiative website

This page is a contribution of the ELSA Empowering Lives, Supporting Affectivity, EU cofunded project: http://www.elsacare.eu/