According to a new survey of boomers, “as with just about everything else in their lives, the survey suggests, boomers will be choosing their retirement housing on their own terms — and quite differently from the way their parents did. Depending on your perspective, they’re either selective or selfish.”
Read the full article from Next Avenue, a PBS blog, The Homes Boomers Will Retire In, published on-line April, 2014.
After lamenting our fear of dementia and sharing dementia-friendly responses to community design in other countries, this 2013 article from MINNPOST by Marlys Harris shares a bright spot in the US: the Minnesota statewide campaign to create “dementia-capable communities.”
Harris’ article highlights the work of the Minnesota group, ACT on Alzheimer’s, which has a goal of creating “dementia-capable communities.” ACT says. “a dementia capable community is