Even with an Empty Nest, Plenty of Time, and Lots of Good Intentions, Decluttering Your Home Can Be Harder Than You Expect
Not to skip right past Christmas – but a glance at the calendar tells us that we’re not far from New Year’s Day, which means a set of New Year’s resolutions. We suspect that for many of our readers, “getting rid of the clutter” is high on the list. Since the COVID pandemic...
Senior Housing: 55-Plus Communities May be a Marketing Success, but Many Retirees Prefer the Benefits of More Diverse Living
As the baby boomers age, the demand for new, more exciting forms of senior living is mushrooming all across America – particularly in Florida, where the master-planned community The Villages is now home to more than 50,000 people. In fact, according to this intriguing...
Is Your Retirement Plan a House of Cards?
If you’re the average American, your retirement plan consists of legal documents (your estate plan) and a nest egg (your financial plan) designed to achieve two primary goals:
Fund the adventures you’ll have after you stop working.
Transition your assets after you...
Need Help With Long-Term Housing Solutions? It’s Probably Time to Hire a Geriatric Care Manager
It’s a dilemma that almost every family faces sooner or later: an aging parent or spouse can no longer live at home and has to move into a care facility. Sometimes the move into long term care is planned, but often – due to a health crisis, accident, or lack of preparation –...
Assisted Living is Ideal for Many Seniors, but Complaints About Quality of Care are On the Rise
Last fall, in its October 2017 issue, the authoritative magazine Consumer Reports ran a very intriguing and insightful cover story. The photo showed the hand of a frail senior being tenderly held by a much younger hand, beneath the headline, “Who Will Care for You?” The...
Entrepreneurs Discover a Booming Niche Helping Seniors Relocate
One of the hallmarks of the American entrepreneurial mentality lies in the familiar saying, “Find a need and fill it.” That’s what a growing number of businesses are doing around the nation as legions of aging baby boomers – and their parents – undertake the daunting task of...
Nine Questions to Help You Decide Where to Live in Retirement
Here at AgingOptions we encounter people all the time who think a solid retirement plan means a financial plan. Others seem to think that the only thing that matters is the right medical insurance coverage. These are important, of course, but one of the most important...
Looking for an Alternative Lifestyle in Retirement? Consider Co-Housing
People often say that the baby boomers like to put their generational stamp on things. Well, it appears that now they’re doing to the field of senior housing. The “advance wave” of this huge group of men and women is now a few years into their 70’s, and while a majority still...
Should You Move Before You Retire? The Answer is, “Maybe”
If you’re approaching retirement, you’ve no doubt started considering a host of choices, from medical plans to recreational opportunities to Social Security. But one of the biggest choices retirees have to make is often the hardest – and that is whether or not to move.
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Rent or Buy? Some Suggestions – and Cautions – for Retirees
We all know that baby boomers are approaching – or have already reached – their retirement years. And just like their younger counterparts, many of these aging boomers are starting to grapple with a perplexing housing dilemma: is it better to rent a home or to buy one?...
