Assisted living facilities for retired persons

Flora45

I think all retired persons and pensioners should look forward to get a old age home or assisted living facility for them, as they really need some special facilities to be provided at their stage of life. As there are some very well organized old age home providers are working around some countries to assist such persons.

McKneff

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Give over, I'm :rotfl:63, retired, fit as a lop, own my own home
and would be horrified to be shipped into an old peoples home.

Apart from that, have you seen the costs of these.

margaretclare

OMG. How dare you - how patronising and insensitive. Conversely, I think that all 'retired persons' of whatever age should live their lives to the full, do whatever they want to do - after all they've earned it following a full working lifetime, bringing up families to independence - the last thing that DH and I would want is to be ' assisted' with our living facilities. We were only talking about this yesterday - if other people see us as 'old people' that is not how we see ourselves. We still have our lives to live and we intend to enjoy the time we have left, in each other's company, having only found each other comparatively late in life. You must be a recruiting sergeant for McCarthy & Stone or their like. Go away and take your nasty opinions elsewhere.

annie1975_2

Not everyone is "as fit as a lop".And if someone needs "shipping"(as you put it) into a home then yes the money should be provided for this at whatever cost IMO.

margaretclare

Yes, it's true that not everyone is as 'fit as a lop'. DH and I have some difficulties, but even taking them into consideration and the fact that we're a bit older than McKneff, we still don't feel that we want to be 'shipped' off anywhere. This is taking choice away from people, treating them as 'one size fits all' rather than as individuals who have their own thoughts, wishes and yes, still some things they want to do, to achieve. It's a bit like those cruises you read about or special holidays, where bingo is laid on as standard because 'that's what old people want'. We've mistakenly been on a couple of those holidays - never again!

Over the last few years we've spent a lot of time, money, thought and effort into making this 2-bed bungalow as user-friendly and convenient as possible and I can't see why we should need any 'special facilities' at 'our time of life'. We've made some concessions - car with automatic transmission rather than manual, shower rather than bath, with lower step-in and grab-handles. A few weeks ago this autumn, we had some work done in the back garden, a slope replaced with shallow steps - the slope was slippery and dangerous in wet weather. Boiler replaced 5 years ago, then new insulation in the loft so that we're all warm and toasty for winter.

seven-day-weekend

We are almost 63 and 64 and still enjoying making a new life back in the UK after spending eight years living in Spain. We have become professional house/petsitters, looking after other peoples' houses and pets while they are away. We certainly don't need anyone to look after us!

I do agree that facilities should be available to those who DO need help, but please do not put us all in the same box!

McKneff

annie1975 wrote: »

Not everyone is "as fit as a lop".And if someone needs "shipping"(as you put it) into a home then yes the money should be provided for this at whatever cost IMO.

!!!

Provided by the taxpayer, again. I realise that everyone is not as fit as a lop, now, but they have had a lifetime before this to provide for their future.

At whatever the cost. !!!! People should take responsibility for them selves.

seven-day-weekend

There is a McCarthy and Stone development near us, which is quite nice and I can imagine someone in their twilight years enjoying living there with the sheltered accommodation it provides.

The age limit is over-55s:eek:

Why on earth someone only in their late 50s would want to live there I have no idea. They could be working for another ten years!

margaretclare

I believe absolutely in taking responsibility for oneself. I've always believed this. From experience, private enterprise beats state provision most times. Just one example: if we'd waited for 'the council' to re-do our shower for us we'd have been waiting 18 months, even if they'd found the money to do it, which is far from certain.

We're still taxpayers!

margaretclare

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

There is a McCarthy and Stone development near us, which is quite nice and I can imagine someone in their twilight years enjoying living there with the sheltered accommodation it provides.

The age limit is over-55s:eek:

Why on earth someone only in their late 50s would want to live there I have no idea. They could be working for another ten years!

We looked at one of these a few years ago, when a new development was being built. No, it definitely wasn't for us. The saleswoman's pitch was 'we find that older people want/prefer/choose'. It was, essentially, not buying a new place to live, a more convenient apartment, but buying into what was considered to be a suitable older people's lifestyle. What killed it for us - not that we were really serious about it, just curious - was the fact that there was only one allocated parking space to every 4 apartments. No use at all.

You're right about working, 7DWE. We both worked until we were 67.

seven-day-weekend

margaretclare wrote: »

We looked at one of these a few years ago, when a new development was being built. No, it definitely wasn't for us. The saleswoman's pitch was 'we find that older people want/prefer/choose'. It was, essentially, not buying a new place to live, a more convenient apartment, but buying into what was considered to be a suitable older people's lifestyle. What killed it for us - not that we were really serious about it, just curious - was the fact that there was only one allocated parking space to every 4 apartments. No use at all.

You're right about working, 7DWE. We both worked until we were 67.

Many of today's workers have a State retirement age of 68. So why on earth would they go int a 'retirement' apartment at 55?