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Volume 2 - Issue 1

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In this Issue:

Senior Housing Comes of Age
Cohabitating Seniors: Protect Your Rights
Recession-Driven Cuts Threaten Effort to Expand Adult Day Care
Poetry Page
Crossword Puzzle/Sodoku!

Senior Housing Comes of Age

By Michael Berne, Managing Director, Seniors Housing Group / Jones Lang LaSalle

The seniors housing industry has dramatically changed. While "I would never live in a nursing home nor want anyone I love to live in a nursing home," was a refrain frequently voiced for several generations, seniors housing (including many nursing homes) now presents a wide range of choices that merit serious consideration for the aging population. The U.S. Census bureau projects that the current figure of 35 million people over the age of 65 will increase to 75 million on the next 21 years. This paper explores the present state of the seniors housing industry and how the future seniors housing community will evolve to meet expectations and be commercially successful.

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Cohabitating Seniors

Protect Your Rights

Courtesy of ElderLawAnswers.com

More and more seniors are living together without getting married. According to U.S. Census data, the number of cohabitating seniors nearly doubled between 1989 and 2000. For some seniors, marriage isn't financially worth it, they don't want to lose their former spouses' military, pension or Social Security benefits. Other seniors don't want to have to pay their partners' medical expenses or deal with the objections of childred worried about their inheritance.

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Recession-Driven Cuts Threaten Efforts to Expand Adult Day Care

By Paula Span / www.KaiserHealthNews.org

"Scrunch your face up like a raisin, and then open your jaw and stick out your tongue and go aaahhh," says the yoga instructor. Her four students, one in a wheelchair, break into giggles.

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Poetry Page

M is for Memoir

Write it out for love   write it out for hate   write it to find out
how you arrive here   and which path waits   write it for your heirs
yourself or the world......

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