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.
Housing
How to reduce your housing expenses
Unless you’re Donald Trump, housing makes up your largest monthly financial expense, which is why it’s so important to not be paying for housing after you retire.
Families work together to solve special needs housing problems
If you think housing choices are difficult for aging adults, consider what it’s like for those same adults looking for housing options for their special needs children.
Senior housing options
There’s no place like home but where will your home be when you retire?
Tools for choosing a nursing home
In 2010, the Seattle Times published a report that gets mentioned on this site, in the Aging Options Resource Guide and by Rajiv Nagaich fairly often. That report, “Seniors for Sale,” concerned the treatment that elderly individuals received in Seattle/Tacoma area Adult Family Homes. The conclusion of that report was that individuals needed to do … Read more
California AGs office looks to pursue criminal charges against nursing homes
Every year an estimated 2.1 million older Americans are reported as victims of abuse and neglect. Experts estimate that for every case reported, five go unreported. About 4 percent of the abuse occurs in nursing homes according to the American Psychological Association. This seems like a small number of cases but consider this: CBS News reported in 2001 that one out of four nursing homes is cited for causing death or serious injury to a resident each year.
Affordable senior housing and aging in place
What’s it mean to have affordable housing? What do people mean when they talk about aging in place? What will it take to have those two things; affordable housing and homes built for seniors in safe neighborhoods with access to grocery stores and doctors and places of worship? That’s a lot of questions and right … Read more
Road Map to a Housing Rebound
Yes, as we all know… just as with politics, and Tip O’neil’s famous mantra, “All politics is local”… so, with real estate, “All real estate is local”. Having said that, this article in US News and World Report is instructive in that it lays out 5 general factors that we can, and should, pay attention … Read more
Got a "Seniorville"?… I Wanna Know About It
Last Sunday’s Seattle Times Real Estate Section put a spotlight on the area of Riverside Drive / Bothell, a fine berg just north of Seattle, touting it’s attraction as a “Seniorville”. This put me in mind of an important concept that I counsel Boomers and Beyonders on when the issue on the table is…
“Where’s the best place for us to live out our ‘final 1/3 of life’ with a high level of health and happiness”?
Backyard cottages sprouting in Seattle
A few years back, Seattle homeowner Bette Lalley and her adult daughter Darla Rude wanted to build a small house behind Lalley’s home so that the two could live nearby one another. Disappointed that the city didn’t allow construction of second homes on single-family lots in their neighborhood at that time, Lalley and Rude watched … Read more