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These resources highlight how we’re leading the country in affordable housing and community development, and why community living is crucial to maintaining your health and longevity.
“Thanks to its network of high-capacity, mission-driven, community-based housing organizations, Massachusetts is poised to become a leader in creating a nationally recognized aging in community approach to housing.”
– Amy Schectman, President and CEO at 2Life Communities
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Use the links below to view our guides and senior living resources.
Understanding Your Housing and Financing Options.
These helpful resources will highlight all aspects of the costs associated with aging, home maintenance and more. Our financial calculator is just what you need to start planning your future responsibly.
- The Longevity Economy – Dr. Joe Coughlin
- The next big question you must answer after you decide to retire – CNBC
- “Who Will Take Care of Me When I’m Old?” – Joy Loverde
Finding Purpose in Your Second Act.
Volunteering your time and talents leaves a lasting impact on all the people with whom you connect and adds a renewed sense of purpose to your own life in retirement.
- Volunteering and its surprising benefits – The HelpGuide
- Engaging the talent of those over 50 to make a difference in their communities and the world – Encore Boston
- Lifetime Relevance Worksheet Handout – Joy Loverde
- How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generation – Marc Freedman
- Third acts: Some older adults are rejecting lives of leisure – on purpose – C.S. Monitor
The Benefits of Aging in Community
“Aging is, and always has been, a team sport. The myth of ‘aging in place’ harms people by defining the decision to share one’s daily life with others as failure.”
— Dr. Bill Thomas
- Aging in Community – The Boston Globe
- The High Price of Loneliness – New York Times blog
- The Loneliest Generation: Americans, More Than Ever, Are Aging Alone – The Wall Street Journal
- Essential Retirement Planning for Solo Agers – Dr. Sara Zeff Geber
Moderate Wealth and the Forgotten Middle
Every generation brings with it a wave of change. As the baby boomers grow older, their impact on society looms larger. Now, those in the middle income bracket of this generation have a chance to change things again.
- Serving the Middle Market: A Housing-Based Perspective – Leading Age
- Podcast: Housing and Services for the Middle Market – Leading Age
- The Forgotten Middle: Many Middle-Income Seniors Will Have Insufficient Resources For Housing And Health Care – Health Affairs
- Study: 8 Million Middle-Income Seniors Will Struggle to Afford Housing – Forbes