| e approaches aging differently, and for those who | | | | offering a vast choice of social, cultural, travel, and |
| have achieved senior citizen status, the range | | | | sporting opportunities to active seniors, to full-care |
| of emotions can be quite overwhelming. Some | | | | facilities specializing in caring for the elderly victims of |
| seniors see their retirement years as the best of | | | | mental and physical disabilities, there is senior citizen |
| their lives; others deny that they are undergoing any | | | | living to satisfy any need. |
| major changes; and many of the elderly feel | | | | Types Of Senior Care Housing |
| extremely insecure about their futures. | | | | Senior citizen living is available to accommodate |
| Regardless of their personal reactions to the | | | | low-income elderly people, through the Department |
| inevitable fact of aging, people can take some | | | | of Housing and Urban Development’s Section |
| responsibility for how they spend their golden years | | | | 202 program. Funded both as part of the HUD |
| by doing what they can to remain mentally and | | | | budget and with the rental fees it charges, Section |
| physically fit. | | | | 202 senior care housing is available for those 62 and |
| Welcoming The Baby Boomers | | | | over, or for low income families, as long as one of |
| Aging is a normal, and unavoidable, part of life, and | | | | the family members is that age. |
| the elderly are as entitled as everyone else to | | | | Private senior care housing can range in price from |
| maximize every day they have. Medical advances, in | | | | $20,000 to $200,000 per year, depending on the level |
| fact, have meant that people are living longer than | | | | of services a facility offers. Many senior care housing |
| ever before. The Baby Boomer generation, born in | | | | communities have medically trained staff, |
| the twenty years after World War II, is now | | | | housekeeping and meal preparation, and |
| entering retirement age, and they are an enormous | | | | transportation available for shopping, medical care |
| political and economic force. The face of senior | | | | visits, and social outings. |
| citizen living in the US is going to change dramatically | | | | Senior care housing is becoming more and more |
| to accommodate their wants and needs. | | | | important, as the number of retiring Baby Boomers |
| One of the most obvious ways in which society is | | | | grows, and many of those individuals want to enjoy |
| changing to meet the demands of an aging population | | | | their golden years without the responsibility of |
| is in the wide availability and variety of senior citizen | | | | maintaining a home. |
| living facilities. From upscale retirement communities | | | | |