Category: Health and Lifestyle
Confessions of a Recent CCRC Mover
The question I most encounter when speaking with friends, family members and acquaintances about seniors housing is: How do you get a reluctant family member of advanced age living alone to agree to move to seniors housing? It doesn’t seem to matter if the family member is 79 or 99, there is still a strong…
Barcelona and Basque Region Vacation
My wife and I vacationed in Barcelona and the Basque region of Spain in October 2015. We had previously visited Madrid and southern Spain but had never before been to the northern part of the country. Our itinerary took us directly to Barcelona, where we spent three days, followed by five days in…
Finding Happiness In Senior Housing
Three things came together to spark this blog: A January 17, 2015 New York Times article entitled “Mean Girls in the Retirement Home” (http://nyti.ms/1KStZ4j), A 2014 study by the American Seniors Housing Association (seniorshousing.org) entitled Unlocking the Mystery Behind Very Satisfied Independent Living Customers – Make Them “Feel at Home” and A dinner conversation with…
Relationships Key to Happiness In Retirement & Seniors Housing
I spent a recent weekend on the Rhode Island shore with a eight friends I have known for over 40 years and several of their spouses/significant others. We try to get together every two or three years and it is amazing how quickly we are able to reconnect and how reminiscences we have all been…
Galapagos
Our 2015 trip to the Galapagos was my wife’s choice. While I had an interest in the ecology and evolutionary history of the islands, my preferred vacation would have been more urban and more culturally focused. But both my wife and I found the Galapagos to be a spectacular trip. Never before had we been…
Downsizing
My experience indicates there are two times in the lives of many seniors when downsizing is most likely to be considered. The first occurs in one’s late 50s or 60s after the kids have left home and the second in one’s late 70s or 80s when care needs may dictate a move to a more…