The "Village" can keep seniors in their homes longer, or indefinitely!

Most retirees would like to spend all their remaining days at home.  This once was how things actually were, but ending one's life at home has become less and less practical as families have become smaller, women have entered the workforce, and children have dispersed.

There is a movement, however, that seeks to return things to the happy state of yore: The Village Movement. This is a membership organization, with annual dues of between $500 and $1000, in many cases, that has a paid core staff that coordinates among the members, who generally live in the same town or neighborhood, to provide mutual help and services.  It is, in fact, an extended family.

I am very excited about this movement, which already has hundred of villages in the US and abroad, and which represents and important solution to some of the main practical problems of old age.

Here is an article on the subject (click on picture):

Here is map of some locations in our region: