Robust Retirement

  • 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…

  • Repositioning Older Assisted Living Properties

    Background With NIC-MAP data starting to report an upturn in senior housing development activity, many older senior housing properties are or can soon be expected to face a more competitive market for new residents.    Senior housing, and particularly purpose built assisted living and memory care, are relatively young industries and most early assisted living…

  • Layman’s Guide To Post Acute Care

    I had a conversation with a friend today who has a relative that is comatose after a surgical procedure.   The patient has recently been shifted from a feeding tube though the nose to one connected to the stomach and is about to be transitioned from oxygen through a breathing tube to a ventilator connected directly…

  • 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…

  • Technology In Seniors Housing

    Stereotypes view anyone over 50 as barely able to keep up with technology and unable to use smartphones, Skype or Netflix. But technology already plays an important role in the lives of many seniors, even those over 75. It is reshaping the ways seniors live and interact in their homes and within senior housing communities.…

  • Get What’s Yours – The Secrets To Maxing Out Your Social Security

    Important Changes in New Two-Year Budget Agreement According to a report in today’s (10/29/15) Wall Street Journal on page C1, the two-year budget agreement, passed by the House of Representatives on October 28th and headed to the Senate will eliminate the ability of social security recipients to elect and suspend benefits at age 66 (described…

  • Signing Up For Medicare

    I have a group of friends who first came together in a special 6th grade class and continued in school together through high school.   About 10-year ago we began having informal reunions every two or three years.   This year, since I am one of the first to turn 65 and have some background in healthcare,…

  • Managing Your Investment Portfolio

    As a former stock analyst, I often get questions about what stocks to buy or how to manage an investment portfolio. I am not going to recommend specific stocks in this blog because I believe there is already an overwhelming amount of financial advice on the web and because I no longer follow individual companies…

  • 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…

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