Where should senior citizens live? Both seniors and adult children will learn how to decide about staying in the current home with modifications or moving to more appropriate housing like retirement communities or assisted living facilities. For seniors, it validates your self-worth and guides you through each stage. For the adult children, it teaches you how to direct your parent into finding the safest possible housing. By learning about these topics of modifying the current home or deciding to move, doing the homework, learning about the many housing choices, having the interview, downsizing, moving in, and acclimating, you will have the keys to successful senior living. Both generations should participate in the conversation that flows from aI am not readya to aI do not want to movea to aI am not surea to the realization of aI love it here.a

If you've ever dreamed of casting off your worldly possessions and traveling to your heart's content, this story about two intrepid seniors will inspire you no matter your age. Michael and Debbie Campbell felt they had one more adventure in them before considering retirement in the traditional sense, so they filled two rolling duffel bags with life's essentials (including their own pillows) and hit the road. Three years later, having sold their home in Seattle, their "Senior Nomad" lifestyle has no end in sight. Ride along as they share tales of living full-time in Airbnbs in over 50 countries and pay tribute to the many hosts who not only helped them live daily life, but also offered unique opportunities to experience their cities. From the barber's chair in Dublin and the dentist's chair in Split, to a wild motorcycle ride in Athens, a peek behind the Soviet Curtain in Transnistria, and the demise of a chicken for dinner in Marrakech, hosts made the Campbell's dream of adventure come true. Discover how Debbie and Michael find their next Airbnb, how they get there, and the many ways they enjoy their new city just as the locals do. Learn their tips and tricks for using Airbnb and how they get the most out of each stay, all while spending little more than they would have spent settled into their rocking chairs in Seattle.

It's challenging for senior citizens to sell their homes and move into retirement communities. But obviously they are doing it. Do you want them to relocate to your place or your competitor's? This book was written to help CEOs, CFOs, administrators, and marketing directors determine if their marketing teams are performing optimally with every single marketing encounter. Find out if your marketing team might be sabotaging potential sales. Discover new strategies to develop a strong and consistent occupancy marketing program.The strategies within this book will also provide your new or current salesperson insight into the senior mindset and how to strategically sell your retirement community.While many senior living communities have been coasting on robust wait lists for years, in many cities, the days of lists are gone and apartment homes are sitting open. You and your team may be experiencing some challenges in occupancy for the first time. Is it the economy? Your team? Or your strategy? This book will provide you with 12 keys to building occupancy at your retirement community. Sometimes you need to search for and identify a problem in order to solve it. If you keep doing what you are currently doing, you will end up with the same results. Or worse. *12 keys to unlock your senior housing occupancy blockade! *Effective strategies for independent living, assisted living, and CCRCs!*Could your sales team be unknowingly sabotaging their sales?*Beneficial for CEOs, CFOs, marketing staff and other key team members!*Every chapter is designed to help your financial performance!*Discover surprising reasons why occupancy could be down!*New sales and marketing people will be successful sooner!*How to increase occupancy to 100 percent for existing retirement communities! *Ideas on how to market a developing senior housing community! *Tips in every chapter to start helping your occupancy increase today!

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Finding the best place to live in the golden years of life 2008 was a landmark year, as over 79 million people became eligible for Social Security benefits. More and more senior citizens and their children will need to make decisions about where they will live the remainder of their lives and most will seek to downsize and seek out age-appropriate communities. Gilbert Guide, America's premier source of information for senior care and housing needs, provides helpful and comprehensive information about: *How to evaluate housing needs *Each available housing option, including services, contacts, and financing *Subsidized housing *Moving and settling in *How to get the best services *Government agencies and other resources

Senior Housing 101 is a book for anyone researching senior living options, whether for themselves or for their aging parents and relatives. It reveals dozens of insights on the options available in today's complex marketplace, tips and techniques for successful research, and proven formulas for confidently identifying the best choices for your particular situation. Senior Housing 101 turns readers into savvy consumers.

A comprehensive framework for capitalizing on the growing market for Continuing Care Retirement Communities. Senior Residences equips architects and other industry professionals with a proven executive strategy for the design and development of successful Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) projects. Using two of America's foremost CCRCs as best practice case studies, it guides readers through every critical aspect of the process, from research and planning through construction, including: * The enterprise concept * Formation of an executive organization * Financial and legal due diligence * Marketing and sales preparation * Residents' expectations and requirements * Healthcare and residential services * The design and build process * Project monitoring and assessment The over-65 population is increasing rapidly and dramatically, raising crucial concerns about the housing and care of senior citizens in the years ahead. How can we provide the best possible quality of care to the elderly? How can architects, developers, and others capitalize on the growing senior housing industry and stay competitive in the future? How can the facilities they create deliver both good service and strong financial returns? While there are no easy answers to these important questions, the Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) model has emerged as a flexible and attractive option for providing combined housing, services, and nursing care to the elderly. Senior Residences equips architects and other industry professionals with a comprehensive, three-part strategic framework for designing and developing successful CCRC projects. Part I identifies the eight critical success factors of a CCRC enterprise and illustrates them through an in-depth examination of two exemplary developments, The Cypress of South Carolina's Hilton Head Island and The Stratford in the San Francisco Peninsula. Part II details a computer-based "standard of performance" system to track progress and assess project performance. Finally, Part III examines how to use different types of research to stay on top of market trends and forecasts, legal and licensing requirements, and more. Together, the three elements of this executive strategy cover every aspect of the development process, from the initial enterprise concept and executive organization building to financial and legal due diligence, marketing and sales, residents' services and healthcare, and design and build. Readers gain essential guidance in tackling key project management issues as well as in developing effective problem-solving and troubleshooting skills. Written by an author team with extensive CCRC experience, Senior Residences helps encourage avenues of thought that will lead to more cohesive, responsive, and successful CCRC projects that benefit the professionals who build them and the residents who live in them.