“Survey: 85% of adults want active adult and assisted living communities nearby,” by Lois A. Bowers, McKnight’s Senior Living

“Eighty-five percent of adults aged 50 or more years think it is important to have active adult communities, assisted living communities and communities with shared facilities and outdoor spaces where they live, according to a recent national poll. Twenty-seven percent of adults in that age group who participated in AARP’s 2018 Home and Community Preferences Survey said that having such communities nearby was ‘extremely important’ to them personally, 35% said it was ‘very important’ and 23% said it was ‘somewhat important.’ … Nonetheless, 76% of participants aged 50 and older said they would prefer to remain in their current residences, and 77% said they would like to live in their communities as long as possible, although only 59% anticipated that they will be able to do so.”

LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform):

Hmmm, “we need places for old people, but I’m not going there?”

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