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What can you do when Mom's having housing issues?

Caregivers often find themselves in tricky situations.  Here’s a situation that can come up that can require trained help to overcome. Your mom has dementia and resides in a nursing home.  She never lasts very long in any particular nursing home because she enters other client’s rooms, undresses and slips into bed with them (don’t … Read more

Senior housing options: going beyond moving to become a movement

While the vast majority of older Americans want to continue living in their own homes as they age, many will end up moving into senior living communities.  A recent National Aging in Place Council (NAIPC) meeting in Washington D.C. addressed ways to avoid making that transition. Technology: webcams, Skype and other monitoring devices can greatly … Read more

Understanding the role of your home in retirement

According to the 2013 Investment Company Fact Book, American retirement relies upon a five-layer pyramid comprised of Social Security, homeownership, employer-sponsored retirement plans, individual retirement accounts and other assets.  Social Security represents the base of that pyramid, as it is the largest component of retiree income for most Americans and the predominant income source for … Read more

Study finds that not all AL facilities are created equal

 
One alternative to nursing home living is an assisted living facility. These come in all sizes. That statement might seem to be a comment worthy of a “duh” response but the reason that the size of a facility has any bearing is that a new study found that the size of a community determined the demographics of a community. The study analyzed information from the 2010 National Survey of Residential Care Facilities by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

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Where you live matters

 
The United States covers a very large area so it’s mostly impossible to make all-encompassing statements.  For instance, the average American lives to 77.6 years and overall ranks 33 in the world for longevity but where you live matters because there is a deep disparity between parts of the county. 

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Choosing housing that allows you to remain independent

Four years ago, Liz, a retired Federal Way school worker was widowed and struggling financially with balancing the upkeep on her home with her desire to do some of the traveling she and her husband had always planned once they both retired.  She also felt like the large home she loved was simply too large for one person and felt she rattled around in it without someone else. 

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A moving story: finding housing that fits

When you first moved out of your parents’ home you may have lived in an apartment or lived with roommates.  The point is, wherever you lived you didn’t live in the house you lived in when you eventually got married and if you are like most Americans, that wasn’t the house that you lived in when you began to have a family. 

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