If your parents are aging and still working, you've probably found as I have there are few communities designed for senior living geared toward such lifestyles. All of the magazines about retirement seem to assume that the seniors own homes or have retirement savings OR children to lean on. I can't imagine for how many thousand this is not true.
My mom doesn't golf and doesn't want to golf. She wants to go to the symphony alone, keep working with clients, be out and about going to lectures.
What do we do with our aging population so they can contribute to society and enjoy life as they (and we) age?
Yet she has no money. And she's a hoarder. Senior housing is overcrowded with long waiting lists. Ironically though she has lived in her same town for 50 years she is on equal par with the hundreds of people from all over the state who can apply for this affordable housing.
For years now my siblings and I have wrestled with "what to do" with her. Of course she didn't want to move. Now she has to.
I am told that when seniors move to completely new areas they can get disoriented quickly leading to senility.
I created this blog as a project to chronicle my investigations and efforts to downsize, move, and establish my mom in a place for the 5, 10 or who knows 20 years in the rest of her life.
If you are in a similar situation I hope you will follow and contribute.
We are in California. I am interested in possibilities of creating senior communities or buildings for "mentally active" parents with children who have a bit of money but not a lot.
