Retirement & Financial Planning Report

A full-service retirement community may be ideal for your

olden years. Ideally, you’ll be surrounded by like-minded

contemporaries, free to pursue your favored pastimes without

having to mow the lawn or take care of a car. How can you

find the communities that fulfill these promises while avoiding

overpriced, shabby developments?

Don’t wait too long to start looking. When you’re ready, it may

already be too late. If you delay searching for the right

community until you’re sick or injured, you won’t be able to

investigate properly. While you’re still healthy, do your

research, speak with friends and associates, and make site

visits. The most desirable communities have waiting lists so

give yourself plenty of time.

Don’t take a retirement community at face value. Don’t make

any commitments until you’ve spent some time at the community.

Stay at least one night in a guest house or guest room. Eat

some meals in the communal dining room–and be sure to eat

your meals with residents, not with the marketing director, to

get the inside story.