As people enter their golden years, their housing needs change. For many, the family home is too large and difficult to maintain now that the children have left. There are a number of housing options for the next chapter in life. Some will wish to move to an active retirement community in a favorable climate. Others will downsize to an apartment and remain in their community close to family and friends. Many low-income senior citizen complexes have amenities that suit most lifestyles and interests. For those who wish to remain in their home, reverse mortgages and universal design options make that possible.
- Senior Housing News: A list of predictions for senior citizen housing trends for 2010. These prophecies relate to the housing and financial markets, the “green” movement and alternative housing options.
- SNAPforSeniors® Senior Housing Blogs: These blog posts cover a broad range of housing issues such as affordable housing, nursing homes, long-term care facilities and retirement homes.
- Real Sage Advice: A real estate agent gives tips on finding the right senior housing, assisted living community and types of senior housing in Minnesota.
- Steve’s Senior Care Blog: Experts discuss the senior citizen housing industry in separate blog posts.
- SOCal Office Real Estate Blog: A blog post about how Baby Boomers are changing the senior housing market.
- Gray Matters: Reverse Mortgages: Reverse mortgages are explained.
- Senior Living Information Blog, Chicago Assisted Living, Resources and More…: Plenty of general information about assisted living.
- Aging-In-Place: Special Home Products Getting More Practical, Accessible: Article about products that make it easier for the aging and disabled to remain in their homes.
- Everyone is Aging Blog: Various articles about choosing and living in retirement communities.
- Retirement Your Way – Co-housing May Be Your Answer: The forms co-housing can take.
- Moving Day into the Wesley Homes Lea Hill Brownstone Apartments: How the SASH program enabled a senior couple to move from their home into an apartment.
- Low Income Senior Housing: An explanation of the target population, the benefits and how to locate this type of housing.
- New Reverse Mortgage Limits Help More Seniors Stay in Their Homes: The stimulus bill raises the reverse mortgage ceiling to $625,500.
- Retirement and the Housing Bubble: How to Reshape Your Plan: The decline in the housing market means seniors may not be able to sell their home and retire elsewhere. Remodeling using universal design options will allow them to retire in their own homes.
- Five Creative Uses for Aging-in-Place Design: These five modifications are aesthetically pleasing and functional.
- Medcottage Unveiled: “Granny Pod” Nursing Home for Your Backyard: An alternative to living in a nursing home.
- Reverse Mortgages Part One: Digging Beneath the Surface: The basics of how reverse mortgages work.
- Finding Comfort in Support Groups at Active Adult Communities: In addition to social and recreational activities, adult communities offer support groups for the seniors living there.
- Green Seniors/Small Homes: Don’s Desert Villa: Senior citizen living in a fifth wheel in the desert.
- Shillman House Chronicles: Entry #19: Details the progress of a senior housing building on the Weinberg Campus.
- Wilson Yard: Details About Housing & Retail: Descriptions of the Chicago apartment units and the eligibility requirements.
- Two Affordable Housing Developments Open in Chicago’s North Side: Details of the Wilson Yard project that includes two apartment units, retail space and a Target store.
- La Vida VIDA: New Affordable Senior Housing in Brightwood: This affordable housing for DC seniors will provide many needed services to its residents.
- Congressman Tierney, Bridgewell Announce More Than $1.7 Million to Build Housing for Local Seniors and Disabled Adults: Affordable housing will be built in Lynn, MA to allow disabled and senior citizens to live independently.
- Senior Low Income Housing: Names and descriptions of various low-income housing complexes.
- Low-income Senior Housing Planned: The Birches at Fishkill, a 72 unit complex, will offer many extras. A library, game room, theater and athletic trainers are a few of the proposed amenities.
- A New Idea In Fair Haven: Senior Housing: A developer in Fair Haven, NJ is working to convince borough leaders to approve changes to zoning to accommodate ten cottages intended as senior housing.
- Top Four Reasons To Move to an Independent Living Facility: Social opportunities, activities, security and assistance are the reasons explored.
- New Counseling Procedures Released For Reverse Mortgages: Details of the recent HUD procedures are explained.
- Villages Offer Elderly With Independent Living Option: Villages providing many of the same services as assisted living communities allow seniors to remain at home.
- I Found the Perfect Place for Mom and Dad – Now What?: Advice on how to handle the details of selling their home, handling their many possessions and providing the necessary documents required by most care communities.
- New Lifestyles Announces New Clients for June 2010: New communities and service providers are featured in the New LifeStyles free senior housing and care guide.
- State-of-the-Art, Affordable Senior Housing to Open in Pilsen: Casa Maravilla, a 72 unit building in Chicago, will open soon. It is conveniently located close to a medical center.
- Senior Housing Guidelines Are Approved – With Nary a Whimper! New Dynamic on the City Council?: A brief description of the Guidelines and the concerns raised at the Council meeting.
- Senior Housing News from Senior Living Guide and www.seniorlivingingguide.com: Print and online directories with information on relevant senior issues including housing, retirement and assisted living communities.
- Purpose-driven communities: A novel concept of treating aging seniors as community resources by encouraging their involvement in understaffed community projects.
- The Senior Housing Industry Today: In spite of a poor economy the future is not so dismal for the senior housing industry.
- Saving Section 202: Protecting Affordable Senior Housing Options: An article detailing why congress should be encouraged to support a bill that will preserve assisted housing.
- The Search For Senior Housing: The Top Six Questions to Ask: Answers to these questions will ensure the prospective resident is happy, safe and well cared for.
- Senior Living Options: Now Easy to Choose: The many options for today’s senior makes finding the right living situation easier than in the past.
- Seniors in Rural Communities – Return on Investment: Senior citizens are vital to the economy of rural areas and investing in senior housing is the best way to keep them there.
- Housing Options For The Retirement Years: Links to retirement communities in the US and foreign countries.
- Quinn Signs Nursing Home Reforms: The Governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn, enacted legislation to further ensure the safety of senior citizens.
- Questions to Ask Potential Nursing-Home Facilities: An extensive list of questions for staff, residents and their family members to evaluate the level of care provided.
- Costs Rise Slower for In-home Care Than Nursing Homes or Assisted Living: Results of Genworth’s Cost of Care Survery.
- Moving Back to Campus in Retirement: Profiling the popularity of university centered retirement communities.
- Active Retirement Communities: The requirements and benefits of living in a retirement community.
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