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when they no longer can adequately care for themselves.
Their options are usually limited to ending their days in the often bleak, often cold and always unfamiliar environment of a nursing home or moving in with grown children, sometimes to a less than enthusiastic welcome.
At Blackwater Creek, two retired couples have rejected both choices and dared instead to embark on a unique experiment in communal living. In December, they moved into a one-of-a-kind three unit complex specially designed for adaptation to the needs of the elderly.
Their new home gives them breathtaking views of the Blue Ridge Mountains to lighten the spirit. Built on one floor, it has halls and doorways all wide enough for a wheel chair to pass, a wheel chair that none of them requires now but something that may one day be necessary.
It has acres and acres of space for a cooperative garden, a garden that will increase their self-sufficiency and provide plenty of opportunity for the exercise that keeps so many country people fit and hale past the time their city cousins have retired to an arm chair. And if the day should come, it has space for live-in caretakers.
It wasn’t a spur of the moment decision that led Sid and Margaret Gottlieb and Bob and Sylvia Gowell to Blackwater Creek. The step came only after years of careful thought and planning.
When Sid Gottlieb finished a career with the government, he and Margaret sold their Northern Virginia home. For a year or two, they traveled around the world, stopping in Australia and India before returning to the U. S. and college in California where Sid earned his master's degree in speech pathology.
They knew they wanted to
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