Growing old differently. The dream of a residential community for the elderly where private and community life complement each other, where tolerance, openness, humor, respect, criticism, mistakes, and disputes find their place, which accommodates different economic conditions, and is open to the neighborhood, city, and society, realizing joint projects—who doesn't dream of it? Margareta Hehl and Barbara Zohren, the two initiators of the cooperative "Other forms of living in the Stürlerhaus am Altenberg" in Berne, share their initial ideas about a different way of living in old age, discussing the highs and lows, the process of coming together, house hunting and rebuilding, and everyday life in the shared house they have inhabited with eight others for twelve years. Readers gain insight into this alternative, yet little-tested form of living in old age.