Considering a change: Retirees face tough questions - Glens Falls Post-Star
Five questions Five hard questions for couples:. Do we want our children to take care of us. Do we have easy access to quality medical care. Will we continue to have a circle of stimulating friends around us. When one of us dies, will the surviving spouse want and be able to remain in the house. This article, and those that follow, are designed to help all of us approach that choice with knowledge and clear, hard questions. They told us they were going to leave their lovely home in the woods surrounding the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, and move into a retirement community. As we flew down to help them, we wondered why they were moving from a place they loved into an unknown. Yet the choice to move is not an easy one for most people to make. We have strong ties to our communities, our neighbors and friends, organizations, churches, doctors, and the houses where we have raised families and carved out much of the value in our lives. Leading Age is the national professional organization representing not-for-profit retirement communities. Continuing Care at Home has local organizations in 22 states, and more than 70 percent of its member. Source: poststar.com
