Picture this: Tens of thousands of people from around the world gathered in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert as part of a pop-up community for a week during the annual Burning Man festival, an event geared toward art, self-expression and independence.
Now, imagine a camp brimming with people age 80 and older within this temporary metropolis, residing alongside various other generations for the weeklong festivity that has been likened to the millennial’s version of Woodstock.
This is the scene Juniper Communities’ Founder and CEO Lynne Katzmann seeks to set when she ventures west in August with a group of seniors, their loved ones and their grandchildren—all to partake in Burning Man.
“Juniper decided that we wanted to find a good venue to talk about ageism,” she tells Senior Housing News. “What better place to do that than in an intentional community made up of mostly young people who are open to new ideas and equality?”
