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Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
I take no issue with this line of thinking, but I think you have the demographic slightly wrong. I would be surprised if anyone took issue with those 45-65 year old, empty nesters but still working, keeping the family home. That would have been the case for past generations as well. What I believe has changed (at least anecdotally), are those 65-85, long retired, shouldn't be driving, but don't absolutely need assisted living gummers that won't move. Those are my parents in a nutshell. With an aging population and increasing lifespan, the problem will likely continue to grow.
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That's fair. I still think our collective housing strategy for people getting on in their lives is really lacking. Retirement homes and assisted living facility recently are pretty awful unless you have a LOT of money.
Many of these places are for-profit and they treat the seniors like cattle and many of them treat their employees worse. This would be another opportunity to properly move a service into the public sector to ensure it is being run properly and motivate people to use them.