The following story is part of a joint project between myLifeSite and Senior Correspondent where we ask people to report on their senior living decision process. By Rich Fernsler Long before turning 40, both my wife and I knew we would eventually choose to live in a life care retirement community, based primarily on the very different life experiences [...]
The following story is part of a joint project between myLifeSite and Senior Correspondent where we ask people to report on their senior living decision process. By Parker McLendon My wife and I discovered that it was best to choose before we had to choose! Giving up a home and moving to a retirement community is a major adjustment, [...]
By Karen Shane The following story is part of a joint project between myLifeSite and Senior Correspondent where we ask people to report on their senior living decision process. From our marriage on the plains of Nebraska 59 years ago at 18, John and I have led a peripatetic lifestyle, one that we were not inclined to readily abandon. [...]
By Claudia Rumwell When my husband and I decided to embark on our fact-finding mission to learn about continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs), our friends were perplexed. Weren’t we too young to think about this? None of them were thinking about it. They thought Mel and I were crazy to go to what they [...]
By Julia Wood The following story is part of a joint project between myLifeSite and Senior Correspondent where we ask people to report on their senior living decision process. When my husband and I retired from 40-year faculty careers, we were in our sixties, healthy and active, so we had no interest in a senior community. Maybe later, we [...]
By Janice Daniel The following story is part of a joint project between myLifeSite and Senior Correspondent where we ask people to report on their senior living decision process. 2003 was an important year for my husband, Dave, and me. That is when we first learned about CCRC’s. As we approached our senior years we knew it was vital to [...]
By Bob Marshall The following story is part of a joint project between myLifeSite and Senior Correspondent where we ask people to report on their senior living decision process. I had lost a spouse. My instinct was to remain close to all that was familiar, my friends and community. But over a period of months, it became clear that [...]
The following story is part of a joint project between myLifeSite and Senior Correspondent where we ask people to report on their senior living decision process. By Sue Blaustein Those of us currently living in a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) would agree that researching retirement living options required our analytical thinking and emotional energy for multiple years. My [...]
The following story is part of a joint project between myLifeSite and Senior Correspondent where we ask people to report on their senior living decision process. By Missie Greenwood Even now I am teaching myself to play the organ. It may sound strange to others that here, in a retirement community, in my eighth decade, I am learning and [...]
The following story is part of a joint project between myLifeSite and Senior Correspondent where we ask people to report on their senior living decision process. By Jim Patrick After retiring, my wife and I moved from our home in Seattle to Tucson, where we lived in an active senior retirement community and lived for [...]
